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.
BEN AFFLECKI’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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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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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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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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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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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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I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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You have to pay people real money.
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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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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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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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Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn’t want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.
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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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