"Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things."

"As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think 'actor' and see some easy money."

"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."

"I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy."

"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."

"The highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."