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.
BEN AFFLECKNo matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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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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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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People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is.
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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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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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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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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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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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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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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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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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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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