I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
BEN AFFLECKI’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
BEN AFFLECKI 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.
BEN AFFLECKNo 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.
BEN AFFLECKMarriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
BEN AFFLECKI dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
BEN AFFLECKNo 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.
BEN AFFLECKI’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
BEN AFFLECKI 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.
BEN AFFLECKThere’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.
BEN AFFLECKI’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.
BEN AFFLECKI 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.
BEN AFFLECKOne guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
BEN AFFLECKSure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
BEN AFFLECKI just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.
BEN AFFLECKThere’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
BEN AFFLECKAffleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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