One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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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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 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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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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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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No actor forgets the times he couldn’t get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don’t want that momentum to stop when you get it.
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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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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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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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I’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
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I’m sure I can make a movie that doesn’t feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that’s my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
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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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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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