Matt Damon isn't just passionate about acting.
The actor, 40, took on another cause near and dear to his heart, job security for America's teachers, during a recent march for schools in Washington, D.C..
After a reporter insinuated that teachers should perhaps work harder to ensure they keep their jobs, Damon, there with his teacher-mother, exploded on the woman -- and later on her cameraman.
"You think job insecurity is what makes me work hard?" he asks, clearly offended. "I want to be an actor. That's not an incentive ... It's like saying a teacher is going to get lazy when they have tenure. A teacher wants to teach. I mean, why else would you take a sh---y salary and really long hours and do that job unless you really love to do it?"
The reports is stunned into silence, so her cameraman butts in.
"Ten percent of teachers are bad," the man behind the camera insisted.
When Damon's mother asks "Where did you get that number?" the cameraman continued: "Ten percent of people in any profession maybe should think of something else."
The actor, 40, took on another cause near and dear to his heart, job security for America's teachers, during a recent march for schools in Washington, D.C..
After a reporter insinuated that teachers should perhaps work harder to ensure they keep their jobs, Damon, there with his teacher-mother, exploded on the woman -- and later on her cameraman.
"You think job insecurity is what makes me work hard?" he asks, clearly offended. "I want to be an actor. That's not an incentive ... It's like saying a teacher is going to get lazy when they have tenure. A teacher wants to teach. I mean, why else would you take a sh---y salary and really long hours and do that job unless you really love to do it?"
The reports is stunned into silence, so her cameraman butts in.
"Ten percent of teachers are bad," the man behind the camera insisted.
When Damon's mother asks "Where did you get that number?" the cameraman continued: "Ten percent of people in any profession maybe should think of something else."
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