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.
BEN AFFLECKI dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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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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I’ve seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn’t make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
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When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I’m doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it’s so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
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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’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger,’ and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
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Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn’t make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn’t make it the most important invention of the 20th century.
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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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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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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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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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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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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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