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.
BEN AFFLECKAffleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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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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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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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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How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?
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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’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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God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.
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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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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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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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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It’s such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don’t want to be a sex symbol.
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