One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
BEN AFFLECKYou 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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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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I kinda see my current position like this: Here’s your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before ‘Chuck Woolery’ rings the bell.
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I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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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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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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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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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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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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When you hire great actors, you’re lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You’re happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director’s chair.
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I’m human, just like anybody else.
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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She’s definitely got some war stories.
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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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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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I don’t go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: “Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor.”
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I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there’s also that fear, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be like my father,’ or, ‘I hope my kid doesn’t turn out like me.’ You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.
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Its not who you love. Its how.
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You have to pay people real money.
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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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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 grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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