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I try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

Ben Affleck

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 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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Decision Man Myself People School
I 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.”
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Feeling Monitor Oneself Past
I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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Appearance Man Myself World
There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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Greatness Love Pure Romantic Sleep
I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I’ll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I’ll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
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Act Director Enough Known Myself Page Scene
I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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Fashion Myself Thinking
Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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Knock Marriage People Yourself
I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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Finding Forgiveness Healthy
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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Appearance Better Burn Learning
I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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Aspect Feeling Important Movie Myself
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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Goodness Instinct Myself Reality
No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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Change Pay Price Yourself
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.
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Hate See Sex Symbol World Yourself
I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
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Chance Goodness Need Space Time Try
Its not who you love. Its how.
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Love Way Yourself

I try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

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