Matt Damon movie quotes

Don't you just take the past and put it in a room in a basement and lock the door and never go in there? That's what I do. And then you meet someone special and all you want to do is to toss them the key and say, "open up, step inside", but you can't because it's dark. There's demons, and if anybody saw how ugly it is... I keep wanting to do... (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Damon - Tom Ripley

“I've blown all my buy money, my bribe money, four of my best ID's and I am nowhere! Not only am I nowhere, I'm pretty sure I'm being followed.”
Matt Damon - Linus Caldwell

“Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. Guys around here will tell ya, you play for a living, it's like any other job. You don't gamble, you grind it out. Your goal is to win one big bet an hour, that's it.”
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

“I will take you wherever you need to go. I will take you there; I will leave you there. You can do whatever you want, you never have to see me again. But not here. If we stay here, we die.”

Matt Damon - Jason Bourne

“- Nelson Mandela: How do you inspire your team to do their best?
- Francois Pienaar: By example. I've always thought to lead by example, sir.
- Nelson Mandela: Well, that is right. But how do we get them to be better then they think they can be? That is very difficult, I find. Inspiration, perhaps.”
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela
Matt Damon - Francois Pienaar

“- Linus Caldwell: Hey, can I ask you something? You ever notice that...
- Rusty Ryan: If you're gonna ask if you can ask me a question, give me time to respond. Unless you're asking rhetorically, in which case the answer is obvious: yes.”
Matt Damon - Linus Caldwell
Brad Pitt - Rusty Ryan

“- Danny Ocean: There's a ninety-five pound Chinese man with a hundred sixty million dollars behind this door.
- Linus Caldwell: Let's get him out.”
George Clooney - Danny Ocean
Matt Damon - Linus Caldwell

“- Sean Maguire: Do you have a soul mate?
- Will Hunting: Define that.
- Sean Maguire: Somebody who challenges you.
- Will Hunting: I have Chuckie.
- Sean Maguire: You know Chuck, he's family. He'd lie down in fucking traffic for you. No, I'm talking about someone who opens up things for you, touches your soul.
- Will Hunting: I got… I got...
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robin Williams - Sean Maguire
Matt Damon - Will Hunting

“- Moogie: Hey, lemme ask you a question. In the legal sense, can fuckin' Steinbrenner move the Yankees? Does he have the fuckin' right to just move them?
- Mike McDermott: How should I know that?
- Moogie: You didn't learn that yet?
- Mike McDermott: No, we get to Steinbrenner in third year law school.
- Moogie: Oh...”
Lenny Venito - Moogie
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

“When bullies rise up, the rest of us have to beat them back down, whatever the cost. That's a simple idea, I suppose, but one worth giving everything for.”
Matt Damon - Luke Trimble

“- Linus Caldwell: What did I say?
- Danny Ocean: You called his niece a whore.
- Rusty Ryan: A very cheap one.
- Danny Ocean: She's seven.”

Matt Damon - Linus Caldwell
George Clooney - Danny Ocean
Brad Pitt - Rusty Ryan

“- Danny Ocean: Where're we going?
- Rusty Ryan: Amsterdam.
- Danny Ocean: Amsterdam, it is. Clock's running guys. Let's go.
- Linus Caldwell: I've never been to Amsterdam.
- Turk Malloy: I hear German girls are really hot.”
George Clooney - Danny Ocean
Brad Pitt - Rusty Ryan
Matt Damon - Linus Caldwell

“- Prince Nasir Al-Subaai: What are they thinking, my brother and these American lawyers?
- Bryan Woodman: What are they thinking? They're thinking that it's running out. It's running out... and ninety percent of what's left is in the Middle East. This is a fight to the death.”

Alexander Siddig - Prince Nasir Al-Subaai
Matt Damon - Bryan Woodman

“Maybe I've been wrong all these years, and it's taken your inspiring speech to make me see it. You've really changed me. It's beautiful. I think we've gotta hug.”

Matt Damon - Cale Tucker

“- Jason Bourne: I'll give you ten thousand dollars for driving me to Paris.
- Marie: What, do you think I am, a fool?
- Jason Bourne: You'd be a fool not to take it.
- Marie: What is this, a joke? Some kind of scam?
- Jason Bourne: No, it's no scam.”
Matt Damon - Jason Bourne
Franka Potente - Marie

“- Skylar: You were hoping for a good night kiss.
- Will Hunting: No, you know, I'll tell you, I was hoping for a good night lay, but I'd settle for a good night kiss.”
Minnie Driver - Skylar
Matt Damon - Will Hunting

“I had been waiting so long to run free, but that goodbye was harder than I ever imagined. I'll never forget that boy and how we won back our freedom together.”
Matt Damon - Spirit

“- Rannulph Junuh: Look into my eyes and tell me what you see.
- Adele Invergordon: Determination. Pure determination.
- Rannulph Junuh: Panic, Adele. Pure panic.”
Matt Damon - Rannulph Junuh
Charlize Theron - Adele Invergordon

“And so I grew from colt to stallion, as wild and as reckless as thunder over the land. Racing with the eagle, soaring with the wind. Flying? There were times I believed I could.”
Matt Damon - Spirit

“- Dickie Greenleaf: Everybody should have one talent, what's yours?
- Tom Ripley: Forging signatures, telling lies... impersonating practically anybody.
- Dickie Greenleaf: That's three, nobody should have more than one talent.”
Jude Law - Dickie Greenleaf
Matt Damon - Tom Ripley

“- Lacey Rawlins: You think you can believe there's a heaven if you don't believe in hell?
- John Grady Cole: I guess you can believe what you want to.”
Henry Thomas - Lacey Rawlins
Matt Damon - John Grady Cole

“- Edward Wilson: This seems to me to be a problem for the British. Why are we involved?
- John Russell, Jr.: The British are a particularly civilized people. They don't eat their own. They have somebody do it for them.”

Matt Damon - Edward Wilson
Gabriel Macht - John Russell, Jr.

“How do you know when a lawyer is lying? His lips are moving.”
Matt Damon - Rudy Baylor

“- Walt Tenor: You'll be able to read a book alone, play golf by yourself, masturbate in private like the good Lord intended.
- Bob Tenor: What are you talking about?
- Walt Tenor: Last night it was like trying to sleep next to a paint-shaker.”

Greg Kinnear - Walt Tenor
Matt Damon - Bob Tenor

“Do you know what makes a human being decent? Fear. And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything left to fear anymore. You rest comfortably in seats of inscrutable power, hiding behind your false idol, far from judgment, lives shrouded in secrecy even from one another. But not from God.”
Matt Damon - Loki