The process of filmmaking is a collaboration.

Don’t be afraid to take risks.

Don’t let fear hold you back from taking chances and pursuing your dreams.

I like that best as I am so hairy.

Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn’t around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with ‘Jurassic Park’ and its primeval-dinosaur universe.

Life is about growth and change.

You have to be passionate about what you do.

Kindness costs nothing, but its impact can be priceless.

On the day he had colonic irrigation: ‘I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That’s who I’m dating.

The only person you should compare yourself to is the person you were yesterday.

Every movie is a new opportunity.

Man is still good. We fight. We kill. We betray one another. But we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.

I want to thank my wife who I don’t normally usually associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It’s good. It is work, but it’s the best kind of work, and there’s no one I’d rather work with!

You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

I want to be a good father.

My professional success is really important to me, and my career is really important to me. It’s the most important thing to me outside of my family

Love is a complicated equation, but it’s worth solving.

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You’re embarrassed by your parents, and you’re trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

Well I’ve never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

Family is the most important thing to me.

I’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

Being vulnerable doesn’t make you weak. It makes you human.

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.

I’ve seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn’t make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

I try to keep my life balanced.

I feel things more deeply… anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life… Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.

The greatest strength a person can have is the ability to adapt and evolve.

Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn’t want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Acting is about being true to yourself.

It’s important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.

You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.

True success is measured by the impact you have on others, not just the number of accolades you receive.

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It’s hard to shake those sort of narratives.

You can’t be afraid to fail.

Its not who you love. Its how.

I’ve consciously taken on material that’s a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. ‘The Town,’ I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. ‘Argo,’ I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.

Happiness isn’t about grand gestures or achievements. It’s about the small moments that make your heart full.

Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.

Success is the best revenge.

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you’re trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It’s such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don’t want to be a sex symbol.

The best way to overcome your fears is to face them head on.

I believe in love, and I believe in happy endings.

I’m human, just like anybody else.

Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

There’s no shame in asking for help. In fact, it takes a lot of courage to admit you need it.

You have to do what you love.

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn’t know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

It’s hard to be the fearless leader when you feel like crumbling inside.

They say money can’t buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!

Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

I’ve learned that the best way to live is to live in the moment.

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don’t know what the trick is to maintaining it.

I’m not interested in making a perfect movie. I’m interested in making a movie that resonates with people.

No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.

There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

It’s hard to be a man in this world.

It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.

I’ve learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I’m going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.

People think that because you’re famous, you have answers for everything. No one does.

I’m not perfect, but I’m always myself.

You don’t know a woman until you’ve met her in court.

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.

Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don’t like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.

A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?