Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
BEN AFFLECKHow about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?
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The thing about online gambling is that it’s never away, it’s always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it’s designed to take advantage of that.
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I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there’s also that fear, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be like my father,’ or, ‘I hope my kid doesn’t turn out like me.’ You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.
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I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn’t they? It’s great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, ‘I’m just gonna go to Hollywood!’ is that it seems unrealistic.
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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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You have to pay people real money.
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I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It’s such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don’t want to be a sex symbol.
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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 recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it’s not even a meritocracy. It’s about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it’s impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I’ve always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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You don’t know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you’re going to get some good fried chicken.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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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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You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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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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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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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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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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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 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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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
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Its not who you love. Its how.
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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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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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