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Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn’t make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn’t make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

Ben Affleck

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
BEN AFFLECK

Divorce Experience Life Myself Pleasant Suffering World
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Couple Finding Hollywood Missing Recognition Yourself
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
BEN AFFLECK

Actor Greatness Magazine Myself Weapon
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 AFFLECK

Basement Hostel Mad Mom Myself Stay
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
BEN AFFLECK

Charge Education Library Money Public Wasted Time Yourself
Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
BEN AFFLECK

Day Family Love Ourselves Tragedy
I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
BEN AFFLECK

Finding Forgiveness Healthy
Its not who you love. Its how.
BEN AFFLECK

Love Way Yourself
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Food Goodness Known Pattern
A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
BEN AFFLECK

Director Follow Friendship Job Kind Mom Yourself
I’m human, just like anybody else.
BEN AFFLECK

Human Myself Nature
There’s a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there’s a lot of compromise that goes with that.
BEN AFFLECK

Compromise Live Romance Rule Society Yourself
No actor forgets the times he couldn’t get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don’t want that momentum to stop when you get it.
BEN AFFLECK

Fear Forget Job Momentum Stop Time Yourself
I 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.
BEN AFFLECK

Aspect Body Children Difference Feeling Life Myself Reach Vulnerable
Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
BEN AFFLECK

Command Criticism Director Insecure Move Myself Reality
The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
BEN AFFLECK

Alcohol Best Cure Man Sex

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