You get old, you slow down.
BEN AFFLECKA 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.
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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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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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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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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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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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I’ve seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn’t make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
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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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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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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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My professional success is really important to me, and my career is really important to me. It’s the most important thing to me outside of my family. I take it very seriously and work really, really hard at it. Family comes first, but this is something that’s really important to me too.
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How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?
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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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