I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
BEN AFFLECKThere’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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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’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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Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn’t make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn’t make it the most important invention of the 20th century.
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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.
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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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I don’t go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: “Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor.”
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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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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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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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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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You get old, you slow down.
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When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I’m doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it’s so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
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