But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn’t know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
BEN AFFLECKI dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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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’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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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
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You get old, you slow down.
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You have to pay people real money.
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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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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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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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Yes, I’m going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
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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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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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No 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.
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