Damon Quotes & Sayings

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else — L.J.Smith

I call them the Sons of Anarchy Muhammad WilkerSON, Damon HarriSON, Sheldon RichardSON — Jon Gruden

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know? — Damon Albarn

There were only certain intimacies one could hope to survive. — Damon Galgut

There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers. — William Damon

My dear, he talked of peering into catamites' anuses, if you can conceive of anything more wonderful. — Damon Galgut

I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it. — Damon Lindelof

It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane. — Matt Damon

What is your greatest regret?
Not staying in better touch with people who truly mattered to me before they died unexpectedly. — Matt Damon

I'll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness. — Matt Damon

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against. — Damon Runyon

I want a woman completely devoted to me and my needs. In return, I would take care of her and provide for her every need. But I would be in control. — Maya Banks

Moving to New York was the best decision I ever made. — Johnny Damon

Forgive me my friend, I tried to hold on, but you fell, you fell — Damon Galgut

So damn jealous! Like I can see anyone but you. — Damon Suede

I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it. — Damon Lindelof

'Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future. — Damon Lindelof

You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you mine. (Damon to Serena) — Maya Banks

Griff groaned and covered Dante's loose mouth with his own, driving his tongue in to steal the stars from his eyes, the fire from his mind. — Damon Suede

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself. — Damon Hill

I was going through a break up. I was depressed ... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work. — Damon Albarn

It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry. — Damon Horowitz

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience. — Damon Lindelof

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago ... because she's going to have the nuclear code. — Matt Damon

As the gay friend in these situations, he always ended up in the corner holding someone's purse. — Damon Suede

..the good life warrants an ongoing struggle to be clear about what's important, and to seek it with lucidity and passion; not to be distracted by false ambitions, or waylaid by dissipated conscious — Damon Young

This town was built on nepotism. — Damon Wayans

City Action. Al is a true Damon Runyon character — Donald J. Trump

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change. — Damon Albarn

Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women. — Damon Galgut

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that. — Damon Albarn

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit. — Damon Galgut

I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing. — Damon Albarn

My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers. — Dylan O'Brien

But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did. — Damon Wayans

There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing. — Damon Galgut

Damon: If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving. — Kevin Williamson

Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk. — Damon Wayans

Damon, leather and silk and fine chiseled features. Mercurial and devastating. — L.J.Smith

When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go. — Damon Lindelof

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?' — Damon Lindelof

Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today. — William Damon

She held up three hangers inside a vinyl garment bag and hooked them sideways on the coatrack to unzip. "Raw silk. Vintage. Sort of a purple-black."
"Aubergine," he declared and cracked the opening wider.
"I love a man who can make colors sound dirty." She grinned.
"Cross-dyed." He wondered if Trip had helped pick this out, if he'd seen her model it and convinced her to splurge. "Great suit."
"I gotta stand next to J.R. Ward. Feel me?" She fluttered her short nails at him. "Baby, I went and bought a pair of Givenchy boots I cannot even afford because the Warden is gonna be there in full effect, and you know what that means!"
He didn't really, but he got the gist. "So you want nighttime for daytime."
"Extra vampy, hold the trampy. Like, more Lust For Dracula than Breaking Dawn." Rina squeezed her shoulders together to amp her cleavage. "If I'm hauling the girls out, no way can I do sparkly anorexia. — Damon Suede

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process. — Damon Lindelof

But then she remembered something else, just a flash: looking up at Damon's face in the woods and feeling such - such excitement, such affinity with him. As if he understood the flame that burned inside her as nobody else ever could. As if together they could do anything they liked, conquer the world or destroy it; as if they were better than anyone else who had ever lived.
I was out of my mind, irrational, she told herself, but that little flash of memory wouldn't go away.
And then she remembered something else: how Damon had acted later that night, how he'd kept her safe, even been gentle with her.
Stefan was looking at her, and his expression had changed from belligerence to bitter anger and fear. Part of her wanted to reassure him completely, to throw her arms around him and tell him that she was his and always would be and that nothing else mattered. Not the town, not Damon, not anything.
But she wasn't doing it. — L.J.Smith

The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do. — Damon Hill

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes. — Damon Lindelof

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie. — Matt Damon

If you're just an actor you're reactive. You're saying, "Well, I hope Hollywood gives me a role, or gives me a chance at a role," whereas if you can generate your own content, then you can go where you want to go. — Matt Damon

I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and if I'm in them, I'm usually losing. — Matt Damon

I have always liked a challenge. — Damon Hill

Failure is always present as an actor. I make my living by taking chances. If I'm not risking something, then I'm not doing my job, so I'm constantly failing. In fact, I'm trying to fail bigger. I try to focus on the positive, the moment, and try to realize where I'm at in an attempt to understand the failure. — Damon Runyon

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way. — Matt Damon

That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself. — Damon Galgut

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise. — Damon Galgut

If your heart is broken, do you have a phantom heart? — Damon Suede

That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits. — Doug Liman

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time. — Damon Albarn

As a musician usually music is your way out. — Damon Albarn

Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick. — Damon Hill

Stefan was the one who ... the one she loved. But he'd never understood that love was not singular. He'd never understood that she could be in love with Damon and that it would never change an atom's worth of her love for him. Or that his lack of understanding had been so wrenching and painful that she had felt torn in two different people at times. — L.J.Smith

I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything. — Matt Damon

It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis. — Damon Galgut

We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories. — Arwa Damon

All you need is twenty seconds of insane courage and I promise you something great will come of it. — Matt Damon

Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I'm trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It's unfair. — Matt Damon

If you're the guy who basically shows up with coal at the locomotive, they will put it in the train. Like, they won't even assess whatever or not it's good coal.Just throw it in there. — Damon Lindelof

The Vampire Diaries is the story of Elena falling in love with Damon. — L.J.Smith

I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic. — Damon Albarn

Whatsamatter?" Dante scraped a hand over his abs, his neck, the side of his face
collecting his jizz. He sucked his pleasure off his lower lip. "I gave myself a fuckin' necklace. — Damon Suede

There are many monsters, oh, many! — Damon Galgut

I love Boston and I always will. I'll always have terrific memories and great fans here. — Johnny Damon

Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now. — Damon Albarn

It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore — L.J.Smith

We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world. — Johnny Damon

I found focusing on the positives was really beneficial. I wrote down thoughts about how much better I would feel and look and how much calmer and more present I would be when I could get through the initial phase of wanting sugar and pop out the other side — Damon Gameau

When you have a child, your relationship with every child in the world changes. It's like you're in a club you didn't know existed before a child came into your life. I believe you should make the world more beautiful for all children in any way that you can. — Matt Damon

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters. — Matt Damon

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world. — Damon Albarn

Never make a permanent mistake to solve a temporary problem. — Damon Suede

If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile. — Damon Lindelof

A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner. — Damon Runyon

Everything was so nutty with Loretta, all her reactions. She used tantrums like most people used sedatives — Damon Suede

I've actually been asked once or twice if I had some Puerto Rican in me. — Grey Damon

Our problem is civil obedience — Matt Damon

She couldn't help thinking, even now about how handsome Damon looked, how wild and dark and ferocious and gorgeous. She could help thinking about the times he'd smiled at her, laughed at her, come to save her at her urgent call. She had honestly thought that someday ... But now she felt as if her heart were breaking in two. — L.J.Smith

SOMETIMES A plan is just a list of things that don't happen. Ruben — Damon Suede

The funny thing is, I don't care too much. You think you love something so badly, but when it's gone you find out you don't care so much. — Damon Galgut

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems. — Damon Albarn

What did love mean if it was doled out so carelessly, with no thought of consequence? — Damon Galgut

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen. — Damon Hill

I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it. — Damon Lindelof

I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out. — Damon Albarn

From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie. — Damon Lindelof

There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism. — Damon Lindelof

I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.' — Matt Damon

When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate. - Damon Knight, "Stranger Station" (1956) — Gary Westfahl

And Lord knows there are more than enough rooms to love someone properly, even if they don't all have floors or ceilings. — Damon Suede

I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home, — Damon Albarn

I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing. — Sarah Silverman