Matt Damon Is Glad He's NOT Brad Pitt in Esquire!

Matt Damon might be famous but he's still one heck of a down-to-earth guy! Happily married, four kids and a love of beer: his life sounds like any other average Joe's!

Well…sort of.

Matt has become very good at flying under the Hollywood radar, unlike his buddy Brad Pitt. Damon didn't hold back when he talked to Esquire about Pitt's celebrity status, his Elysium co-star Jodie Foster and why he's so good at keeping his private life PRIVATE.

Ch-ch-check out the highlights …AFTER THE JUMP!!!

ON BRAD PITT'S SUPER STARDOM

“If you can control the celebrity side of celebrity, then it’s worth it. I look at Brad—and I have for years—and when I’m with him I see the intensity of that other side of it. And the paparazzi and the insane level of aggression they have and their willingness to break the law and invade his space—well, I wonder about that trade. I remember telling him that I walk my kids to school, and his face just fell. He was very kind, but he was like, ‘You b*stard.’ Because he should be able to do that, too. And he can’t.”

ON MARRYING HIS WIFE

“I got lucky, I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn’t double—it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don’t really give them anything. If I’m not jumping up and down on a bar, or lighting something on fire, or cheating on my wife, there’s not really any story to tell. They can try to stake me out, but they’re always going to get the same story—middle-aged married guy with four kids. So as long as that narrative doesn’t change too much, there’s no appetite for it.”

ON JODIE FOSTER AND CHILD ACTORS

“My mother thought it was child abuse. She literally did. She was a professor who specialized in early childhood development, and she thought putting a child onstage or in a commercial or in a movie was child abuse. So when I did Elysium with Jodie Foster, I asked her. I mean, she’s basically been acting since she was born. I figured, if anyone’s going to know, it should be her, right? So I asked her. And she sort of smiled and said, ‘It depends on the child.’”

Matt and his family might have succeeded so far in avoiding the never-ending attention of the papz, but that might all soon change. The Damons are moving to LA, onto the same street as the Affleck-Garners!

Aww! Matt and Ben! Together again!

[Image via Esquire.]

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