"When Matt was 14, he was the only guy to wear a Halloween costume. There he was, deressed up like a ninja. Everyone was like, 'Matt, what are you doing? You're in high school.' Matt kept asking, 'Where are your costumes?'" -Ben Affleck, from YM magazine

"As a kid, I was much better at sports than Matt, even though I was smaller and younger. I literally looked up to him. I don't think Matt [who's 5'11"] ever recovered from the change when I grew to 6'2''." -Ben Affleck, from YM magazine

"We were both very goal-oriented and very driven from a young age. [Acting] was something we always wanted to do. Ben and I used to have 'business lunches.' We'd go to the cafeteria, get burgers, and say, 'Let's talk about business.' Of course, we had nothing to talk about." -Matt, from YM magazine

"Fame will f*** you if you're not ready for it, and it will f*** you if you're not grounded. I've got a great family, and I'm surrounded by people I love and trust who will not hesitate to knock me down if they see me getting arrogant" - from US magazine

"If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I would call." -Ben Affleck, about his friendship with Matt (joking...)

"Mom didn't want to raise little robots. When my brother and I were little, she would give us blocks. Mom would say, "Go make up a game." I think it had a big impact on us. I would fly around the house with a towel on my neck and pretend to be Superman. My brother would make me a bionic arm. Now I'm an actor, and he's an artist and a sculptor. I think the path was set by Mom." -from The Cable Guide

"My prom, my senior prom. The girl that I went with hooked up with another guy, while I was in the room - hopelessy in love, crying myself to sleep. I was heartbroken, crestfallen. And that was, without a doubt the worst date of my life. I thought that she was really pretty. Now there are a lot of other girls I would take to the prom before her" -from InStyle magazine

"I don't care if we're nominated (for an Oscar) for best morons, because I'd think, well, I got nominated with Ben, and that's pretty cool." -from the EW article "Faces of the Oscars"

"It's probably better that I have no free time in Vegas. I would only get myself in trouble." -from Premiere magazine

"We sold [Good Will Hunting] for half a million, and we go from eating Ramen Pride to eating real spaghetti. It was amazing."-from Mr. Showbiz

"My [creative writing] teacher [at Harvard] was very complimentary of [the play version of Good Will Hunting] and told me to stick with it, but I didn't know what to do with it, so I brought it out to L.A. and showed [it to] Ben Affleck, my best friend. He took a look at it and he said, 'Well, we should really write this together...' We couldn't get arrested in Hollywood - so we just started writing this thing one night. And it just tumbled out." -Matt on RoughCut Online

"Knowing that I am the greatest guy in the world really makes it simple." -Matt joking to E! Online about how he controls his ego

"Francis really wants you to try wacky stuff on the set. You would open doors on the set and there would be naked people there. It was nuts!"-from Mr. Showbiz

"[Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola are] both geniuses. Francis indulges the actors a lot more, whereas with Steven, it's about his movie. But Steven's very inclusive. He'll get the actors together and say, 'See, here's what we're gonna do. It's gonna be a really cool shot.' It's kinda like being in a group of kids who stole their fathers camera and have to get it all in this one scene." -Matt on E! Online

"Steven [Spielberg] was awe-inspiring to watch. I used to follow him and just shake my head and laugh."-from Mr. Showbiz

"I smoked for 10 years, two packs a day, and I said if I ever get 'Good Will Hunting' made I'll quit smoking, thinking that it would never get made. And I had to quit." -from a Newspaper article