There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
BEN AFFLECKThere is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency. You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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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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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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I have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.
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Directing is monumentally complicated and it’s a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I’m not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, ‘yeah, it’s good!’ Some day.
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There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency. You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
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I want to thank my wife who I don’t normally usually associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It’s good. It is work, but it’s the best kind of work, and there’s no one I’d rather work with!
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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.
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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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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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You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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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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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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