Matt Damon says fame changes your reality forever because everyone treats you differently “The experience of becoming famous, what's the most bizarre about it is, you know, intellectually, that the world is exactly the same as it was yesterday because it is. The same things that matter still matter. Except your subjective reality is altered forever because everybody treats you differently” “So the world is the same, but your world is absolutely different and never will be the same again” “I'd always heard people say, ‘You can't prepare for it. You can't. It's just something that you have to kind of deal with.’ Everybody just deals with it with whatever tools they have, whatever their foundation is” “I was very lucky to have the family that I had and the people around me that I had who just never drank the Kool-Aid because you have to be a little more vigilant about keeping the dynamic, the power balance, in all of your primary relationships exactly the same because the world is trying to tell you that you should have more power, even in those primary relationships” “Of course you can't, or else you destroy those relationships. They have to remain the same”