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.
BEN AFFLECKMemories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn’t want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.
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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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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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You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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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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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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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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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.
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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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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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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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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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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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The thing about online gambling is that it’s never away, it’s always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it’s designed to take advantage of that.
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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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