I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn’t they? It’s great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, ‘I’m just gonna go to Hollywood!’ is that it seems unrealistic.
BEN AFFLECKMy 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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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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Its not who you love. Its how.
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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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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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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
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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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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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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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You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
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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.
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Sure, 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.
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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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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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