I’ve seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn’t make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
BEN AFFLECKThe 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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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 dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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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 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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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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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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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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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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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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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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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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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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