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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.

Ben Affleck

It’s important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.
BEN AFFLECK

Hands Leaving Life Realize Yourself
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
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 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.”
BEN AFFLECK

Feeling Monitor Oneself Past
There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
BEN AFFLECK

Energy Internet Voice World
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

Important Invention Known Myself People
I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I’ll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I’ll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
BEN AFFLECK

Act Director Enough Known Myself Page Scene
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Care Family Important Myself Professional Success
I have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.
BEN AFFLECK

Goodness Instinct Myself Reality
God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.
BEN AFFLECK

Exploitation God Money Movie Myself
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
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
BEN AFFLECK

Fame Feeling Myself Wasted Time
There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
BEN AFFLECK

Greatness Love Pure Romantic Sleep
If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
BEN AFFLECK

Define Moral Ourselves Price Try Universe
If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.
BEN AFFLECK

Call Hotel Myself Person Wake Up

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