My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
BEN AFFLECKMy mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
BEN AFFLECKI have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.
BEN AFFLECKI find forgiveness to be really healthy.
BEN AFFLECKI feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
BEN AFFLECKI’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.
BEN AFFLECKI’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.
BEN AFFLECKOnline 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.
BEN AFFLECKA 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 AFFLECKI dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
BEN AFFLECKI try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
BEN AFFLECKYou wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
BEN AFFLECKI try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
BEN AFFLECKThere’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
BEN AFFLECKSometimes the people we meet change us forever.
BEN AFFLECKYes, 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.
BEN AFFLECKI feel things more deeply anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
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