People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
BEN AFFLECKOne guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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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.
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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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You have to pay people real money.
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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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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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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 dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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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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You don’t know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you’re going to get some good fried chicken.
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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn’t they? It’s great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, ‘I’m just gonna go to Hollywood!’ is that it seems unrealistic.
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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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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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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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I try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
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