I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It’s such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don’t want to be a sex symbol.
BEN AFFLECKI don’t go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: “Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor.”
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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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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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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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’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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It’s important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.
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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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I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there’s also that fear, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be like my father,’ or, ‘I hope my kid doesn’t turn out like me.’ You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.
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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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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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