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 AFFLECKGod 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.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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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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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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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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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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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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A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
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The thing about online gambling is that it’s never away, it’s always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it’s designed to take advantage of that.
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You have to pay people real money.
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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 like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
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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 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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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.
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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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