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.
BEN AFFLECKI’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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It wasn’t my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
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If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt — and fueled even more than Hollywood by money — if that’s possible.
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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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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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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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When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I’m doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it’s so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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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 have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.
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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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I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.
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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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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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Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is.
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