Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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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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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Its not who you love. Its how.
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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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People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.
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You have to pay people real money.
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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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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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I 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.
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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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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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Directing is monumentally complicated and it’s a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I’m not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, ‘yeah, it’s good!’ Some day.
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There’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.
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.
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Sure, 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.
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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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