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.
BEN AFFLECKI like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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No actor forgets the times he couldn’t get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don’t want that momentum to stop when you get it.
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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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Its not who you love. Its how.
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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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I kinda see my current position like this: Here’s your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before ‘Chuck Woolery’ rings the bell.
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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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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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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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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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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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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
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When you hire great actors, you’re lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You’re happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director’s chair.
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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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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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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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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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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’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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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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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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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’m human, just like anybody else.
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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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