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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

Ben Affleck

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.
BEN AFFLECK

Aware Home Myself People Revolution Thinking
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.
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Basement Hostel Mad Mom Myself Stay
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.
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Actor Finding Trap Trying Yourself
All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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Myself Preparation Professional Time Try Work
How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?
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People Prayer Time Woman
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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Failure Hold Movie Myself Work
I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it’s not even a meritocracy. It’s about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it’s impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I’ve always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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Couple Finding Hollywood Missing Recognition Yourself
No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
BEN AFFLECK

Change Pay Price Yourself
I’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger,’ and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
BEN AFFLECK

Description Emotion Feeling Identity Insecurity Myself
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Access Commodity Investment Pay Studio Yourself
Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
BEN AFFLECK

Movie Scripture Stuff Watch
Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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Change Forever Ourselves People
You have to pay people real money.
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Money Pay People Reality
I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
BEN AFFLECK

Color Hairs Myself Photography
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Known Movie President Yourself
Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
BEN AFFLECK

Evil Money Root Yourself

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