I have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.
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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Its not who you love. Its how.
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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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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
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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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Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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I kinda see my current position like this: Here’s your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before ‘Chuck Woolery’ rings the bell.
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I’m much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they’re dating or what clothes they’re wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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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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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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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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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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