Eventually stardom is going to go away from me.
Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.
For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.
I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.
I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.
I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.
I want to do is a character-driven porn movie. It's all going to be about characters, and the porn's gonna grow all out of the character's and it's going to serve as character development.
I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.
It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.
Matt learned to play a few songs on piano for The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Matt lost so much weight for Courage Under Fire, he nearly died. He was trying to look emaciated for the role because his character was a heroin addict.
Matt is good friends with Ben Affleck, Rory Cochrane, and Matthew McConaughey.
Matt attended the Brothers Grimm premiere with longtime buddy Ben Affleck (August 8, 2005).
Matt won an Oscar for "Best Original Screenplay" with his best friend Ben Affleck for their movie Good Will Hunting.
Matt was able to quit smoking after working with a hypnotist in Los Angeles.
Matt's favorite baseball team is his hometown team--the Boston Red Sox.
Matt went to high school at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.
Matt was so anxious to become an actor, he dropped out of Harvard just 12 credits short of graduating to head to Los Angeles.
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