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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.

Ben Affleck

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.
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Access Commodity Investment Pay Studio Yourself
It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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Knock Life Yourself
You have to pay people real money.
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Money Pay People Reality
Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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Change Forever Ourselves People
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.
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Divorce Experience Life Myself Pleasant Suffering World
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.
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Aspect Body Children Difference Feeling Life Myself Reach Vulnerable
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.
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Fear Forget Job Momentum Stop Time Yourself
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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Known Movie President Yourself
People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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Business Crazy Kind Movie People
No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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Change Pay Price Yourself
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
No matter what you’re doing, if you’re trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
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Better Creation Movie People Try Work Yourself
Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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Movie Scripture Stuff Watch
I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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Color Hairs Myself Photography
Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
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Footage Mistake Movie Personal
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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Fame Feeling Myself Wasted Time

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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