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.
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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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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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’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
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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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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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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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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.
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Yes, I’m going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
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I’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger,’ and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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Its not who you love. Its how.
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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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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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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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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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There’s a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there’s a lot of compromise that goes with that.
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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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God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.
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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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How 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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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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But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn’t know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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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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