I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
BEN AFFLECKI’m sure I can make a movie that doesn’t feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that’s my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
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If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt — and fueled even more than Hollywood by money — if that’s possible.
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I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I’ll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I’ll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
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I’ve never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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It wasn’t my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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I’m sure I can make a movie that doesn’t feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that’s my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
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You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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I have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.
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I’m much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they’re dating or what clothes they’re wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
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There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency. You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
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I’m human, just like anybody else.
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.
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The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you’re trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
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I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
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I kinda see my current position like this: Here’s your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before ‘Chuck Woolery’ rings the bell.
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