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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

Ben Affleck

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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Environment Esteem Growth Home Myself
You get old, you slow down.
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Age Old Slow Time Yourself
I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it’s not even a meritocracy. It’s about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it’s impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I’ve always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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Couple Finding Hollywood Missing Recognition Yourself
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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Knock Life Yourself
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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Fame Feeling Myself Wasted Time
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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Easy Feeling Force Myself Talent
There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency. You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
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Celebrity Currency Myself Start Way
There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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Greatness Love Pure Romantic Sleep
I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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Feeling Myself People Try Value
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.
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Greatness Hollywood People Realistic Thinking
Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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Knock Marriage People Yourself
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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Food Goodness Known Pattern
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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Description Emotion Feeling Identity Insecurity Myself
I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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Home Myself Time Woman
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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Fear Forget Job Momentum Stop Time Yourself
People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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Business Crazy Kind Movie People

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