It wasn’t my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
BEN AFFLECKI like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
-
-
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.
BEN AFFLECK -
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.
BEN AFFLECK -
I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
BEN AFFLECK -
I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
BEN AFFLECK -
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
BEN AFFLECK -
If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
BEN AFFLECK -
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.
BEN AFFLECK -
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 AFFLECK -
I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
BEN AFFLECK -
Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn’t make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn’t make it the most important invention of the 20th century.
BEN AFFLECK -
Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
BEN AFFLECK -
I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
BEN AFFLECK -
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.
BEN AFFLECK -
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.
BEN AFFLECK -
You get old, you slow down.
BEN AFFLECK