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.
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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My professional success is really important to me, and my career is really important to me. It’s the most important thing to me outside of my family. I take it very seriously and work really, really hard at it. Family comes first, but this is something that’s really important to me too.
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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.
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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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I 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.
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There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency. You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is.
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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.
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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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I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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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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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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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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