Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
BEN AFFLECKSure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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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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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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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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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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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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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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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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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.
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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.
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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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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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I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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