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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More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I feel things more deeply anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
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I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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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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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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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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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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Its not who you love. Its how.
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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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I’ve never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
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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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You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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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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