Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
BEN AFFLECKI try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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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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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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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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You have to pay people real money.
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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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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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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 just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.
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I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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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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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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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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No matter what you’re doing, if you’re trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
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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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