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Matt Damon Quotes

Total quotes: 29
“Jason Bourne: Look, I'm... you're acting like I'm trying to burn you here. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

Marie: Nobody does the right thing.”
— Jason Bourne, The Bourne Identity
Tagged: do the right thing, Negativity
“Test”
— Mark Whitacre, This
Tagged: Paranoia
“Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage of you call you to get you to drop your guard!”
— Mark Whitacre, The Informant!
Tagged: Paranoia
“Tom Ripley: Ask me what I'd change about this moment.

Peter: What would you change about this moment?

Tom Ripley: Nothing.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: Contentment
“That scent you're wearing... I bought that for you, not Dickie. The thing about Dickie... so many things... That day when he was late coming back from Rome? I tried to tell you this. He was with another girl. I'm not talking about Meredith, either. Another girl who we met in a bar. He couldn't be faithful for five minutes. So when he makes a promise, it doesn't mean what it means when you make a promise, or I make a promise. He has so many realities, Dickie, and he believes them all. He lies, he lies, and that's his... and half the time he doesn't even realize he's doing it!”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: Rome, Girls, promises
“Dickie Greenleaf: You're so white! Have you ever seen a guy so white, Marge? Grey, actually.

Tom Ripley: It's just an undercoat.

Dickie Greenleaf: Say again?

Tom Ripley: You know, a primer.

Dickie Greenleaf: That's funny. Margie likes that 'cause she's so white. too.

Marge Sherwood: Yes, I do and you're not funny.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: white, paint, that's not funny
“Tom Ripley: Nothing is more naked than your handwriting. See how nothing's quite touching the line? That's vanity.

Dickie Greenleaf: Well, we certainly know that that's true.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: handwriting, Vanity
“Tom Ripley: Don't you just take the past, and put it in a room in the basement, and lock the door and never go in there? That's what I do.

Peter: God, yes. Though in my case, it's probably a whole building.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: The Past, Forgetting The Past, Moving On
“Meredith: Dickie?

Tom Ripley: Hello Meredith!

Meredith: Oh my God! I hardly even recognized you.

Tom Ripley: Well, you spotted me so you get the reward.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: Reward
“Marge Sherwood: [about Tom Ripley] I like him.

Dickie Greenleaf: Marge, you like everybody.

Tom Ripley: [Imitating in Marge's voice] I like him. [Imitating in Dickie's voice] Marge, you like everybody.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: you like everybody, mimicking
“Marge Sherwood: I don't believe a single word you've said.

Tom Ripley: You're shivering, Marge. Look at you, Marge. Can I hold you? Will you let me hold you?”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: Distrust, shivering, Hold Me
“Dickie Greenleaf: We're all only children. What does that mean?

Tom Ripley: It means we've never shared a bath. I'm cold, can I get in?

Dickie Greenleaf: No.

Tom Ripley: I didn't mean with you in it.

Dickie Greenleaf: Okay, get in. I'm like a prune anyway.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: Children, shared bath
“Meredith: [sheepish] I'm sorry, I wouldn't have made a joke if...

Tom Ripley: [cuts her off] Don't be sorry. I've never been happier. I feel like I've been handed a new life.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: New Life, happier, I'm Sorry
“Tom Ripley: First of all I know there's something. That evening when we played chess for instance it was obvious.

Dickie Greenleaf: What evening?

Tom Ripley: Oh sure, no, no, it's too dangerous for you to take on. Oh, no, no, we're brothers. Hey. And then you do this sordid thing with Marge. Fucking her on the boat while we all have to listen. Which was excruciating, by the way! And you follow your cock around and now you're getting married! I'm bewildered, forgive me. You're lying to Marge and then you're getting married to her. You're knocking up Silvana. You're ruining everybody. You wanna play the sax, you wanna play the drums. What is it, Dickie? What do you actually play?

Dickie Greenleaf: Who are you? Huh? Some third class mooch? Who are you? Who are you to say anything to me? I really, really don't want to be on this boat with you right now. I can't move without you moving. Gives me the creeps.
[enraged by his on-the-fly suspicions]

Dickie Greenleaf: You give me the creeps!”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: mooch, forgiveness, Cock, Fuck
“You're the brother I never had. I'm the brother you never had. I would do anything for you, Dickie.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: Brother, Loyalty
“Freddie Miles: In fact the only thing that looks like Dickie is you.

Tom Ripley: Hardly.

Freddie Miles: Have you done something to your hair?

Tom Ripley: Freddie, do you have something you'd like to say?

Freddie Miles: What? I think I'm saying it. Something's going on. He's either converted to Christianity... or to something else.

Tom Ripley: I suggest you ask Dickie that yourself. Otello's is on delle Croce, just off the Corso.

Freddie Miles: Is it on 'delle Croce, just off the Corso?' You're a quick study, aren't you? Last time you didn't know your ass from your elbow, now you're giving me directions. That's not fair, you probably do know your ass from your elbow. I'll see you.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: Christianity, Conversion, quick study, ass from elbow
“If I could just go back... if I could rub everything out... starting with myself.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: Regret, erase the past
“And that's the irony, Marge. I loved you. You may was well know it, Marge: I loved you. I don't know... maybe it's grotesque of me to say this now, so just write it on a piece of paper or something and put it in your purse for a rainy day. 'Tom loves me.' 'Tom loves me.'”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: Irony, Love
“Peter: Sorry, I'm completely lost.

Tom Ripley: I know. I'm lost, too. I'm going to be stuck in the basement, aren't I, that's my, that's my...terrible, and alone, and dark, and I've lied about who I am, and where I am, and now no-one will ever find me.

Peter: What do you mean... lied about who you are?

Tom Ripley: I always thought it'd be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

Peter: What are you talking about? You're not a nobody. That's the last thing you are.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: basement, lost, Alone, dark
“Well, whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it? In your head. You never meet anybody that thinks they're a bad person.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: Hurtful, terrible, Bad Person
“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 that: fling the door open, just let light in and clean everything out.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: Past, basement, Demons, ugly
“I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.”
— Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tagged: fake, real
“At the moment … the clearer signal to men and to younger people is, deny it. Because if you take responsibility for what you did, your life’s going to get ruined.”
— Matt Damon, Matt Damon on Harvey Weinstein, sexual harassment and confidentiality agreements
Tagged: Rape Culture, Celebrities, How Boys Think, harvey weinstein controversy, Predators, patriarchal society, Ignorance
“There's a difference between patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation. Both of those behaviours need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated.”
— Matt Damon, Matt Damon on Harvey Weinstein, sexual harassment and confidentiality agreements
Tagged: Rape Culture, Celebrities, How Boys Think
“We can work with that.”

I don’t know Louis C.K.. I’ve never met him. I’m a fan of his, but I don’t imagine he’s going to do those things again. You know what I mean? I imagine the price that he’s paid at this point is so beyond anything that he — I just think that we have to kind of start delineating between what these behaviors are.”
— Matt Damon, Matt Damon on Harvey Weinstein, sexual harassment and confidentiality agreements
Tagged: Rape Culture, Celebrities
“Sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage and I promise you, something great will come of it.”
— Ben Mee, We Bought A Zoo
Tagged: Courage, Fear, Faith
“Sean, if the Professor calls about that job, just tell him, sorry, I have to go see about a girl.”
— Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting
Tagged: Love
“See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna staht doin some thinkin on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certaintees in life. One, don't do that. And Two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin education you coulda got for a dollah fifty in late chahges at the public library.”
— Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting
Tagged: Society, Expectations, Education
“I lived in lower Manhattan at the time. So I just remember walking out of my apartment and seeing it and then going back in and watching CNN 'cause I was so hungry for information, trying to figure out what’s going on.”
— Matt Damon, Here's What Celebrities Were Doing When They Heard About 9/11
Tagged: USA, New York, Freedom
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