“I was here 15 years ago or something, and I had no idea what I was doing. I was sitting out here in front of you all, really just a kid, and I went out and I never thought that I would be back here, and I am because of so many of you who are here tonight, because of this academy, because of so many wonderful people who extended themselves to me when they had nothing to benefit from it…I want to thank them and I want to thank what they taught me which is that you have to work harder than you think you possibly can, you can’t hold grudges, it’s hard but you can’t hold grudges. And it doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, cause that’s gonna happen, all that matters is that you gotta get up.”
we went across the street to this wine store to get a case of wine for a bunch of people. only matt didn’t have his ID on him. the guy was like, ‘no.’ and matt was like, ‘i promise i’m who i say i am,’ and he’s says, ‘no you don’t have your ID. i don’t know who you are.’ and we go back to matt’s apartment, and he’s so pissed off—he’s like ‘i’m gonna show that guy he lost a major, major customer!’ so we got a german gq magazine, that his publicist had sent him, and he walks up and slams it down and says, ‘you just lost my business, pal!’ and the guy just goes ‘okay. get out.’ - john krasinski on what it was like writing a movie with matt damon
