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When you hire great actors, you’re lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You’re happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director’s chair.

Ben Affleck

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.
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Decision Man Myself People School
Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
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Footage Mistake Movie Personal
All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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Myself Preparation Professional Time Try Work
Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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Day Family Love Ourselves Tragedy
Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is.
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Gamble Goodness Hard Work Online Seduce Yourself
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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Creation Experience Movie Reproduction See Yourself
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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Actor Finding Trap Trying Yourself
I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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Beginning Myself Photography Writing
Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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Dangerous War
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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Actor Greatness Magazine Myself Weapon
I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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Fashion Myself Thinking
I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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Color Hairs Myself Photography
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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Celebrity Currency Myself Start Way
You get old, you slow down.
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Age Old Slow Time Yourself
I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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Home Myself Time Woman
I try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
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Failure Myself Permission Success Try

When you hire great actors, you’re lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You’re happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director’s chair.

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When you hire great actors, you’re lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You’re happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director’s chair.

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