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I have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.

Ben Affleck

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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Failure Hold Movie Myself Work
I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there’s also that fear, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be like my father,’ or, ‘I hope my kid doesn’t turn out like me.’ You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.
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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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Couple Finding Hollywood Missing Recognition Yourself
If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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Define Moral Ourselves Price Try Universe
Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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Day Family Love Ourselves Tragedy
When you hire great actors, you’re lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You’re happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director’s chair.
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Creation Director Greatness Name Risk Yourself
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
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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Food Goodness Known Pattern
If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt — and fueled even more than Hollywood by money — if that’s possible.
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Corruption Depression Money Politics Possible Thinking
I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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Fashion Myself Thinking
A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
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Direction Past Stage Theatre Yourself
All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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Myself Preparation Professional Time Try Work
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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Failure Myself Permission Success Try
I 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.
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Easy Feeling Force Myself Talent
Its not who you love. Its how.
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Love Way Yourself
I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn’t they? It’s great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, ‘I’m just gonna go to Hollywood!’ is that it seems unrealistic.
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Greatness Hollywood People Realistic Thinking

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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