I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
BEN AFFLECKA 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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You have to pay people real money.
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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?
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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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The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you’re trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
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I’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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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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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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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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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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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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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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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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Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
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