Its not who you love. Its how.
BEN AFFLECKIts not who you love. Its how.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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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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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.
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I’ve never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
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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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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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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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I feel things more deeply anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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I’m sure I can make a movie that doesn’t feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that’s my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
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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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But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn’t know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
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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.
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I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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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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Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
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You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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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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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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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’m human, just like anybody else.
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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