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I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

Ben Affleck

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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Goodness Instinct Myself Reality
I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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Color Hairs Myself Photography
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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Divorce Experience Life Myself Pleasant Suffering World
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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Food Goodness Known Pattern
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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Act Director Enough Known Myself Page Scene
All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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Myself Preparation Professional Time Try Work
Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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Dangerous War
Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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Change Forever Ourselves People
People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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Business Crazy Kind Movie People
I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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Environment Esteem Growth Home Myself
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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Fear Forget Job Momentum Stop Time Yourself
I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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Feeling Myself People Try Value
I want to thank my wife who I don’t normally usually associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It’s good. It is work, but it’s the best kind of work, and there’s no one I’d rather work with!
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Association Goodness Kind Marriage Myself Thankful Wife Work
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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Knock Life Yourself
If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt — and fueled even more than Hollywood by money — if that’s possible.
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Corruption Depression Money Politics Possible Thinking
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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Chance Goodness Need Space Time Try
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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Call Client Himself Question Reason Sale
I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
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Aware Home Myself People Revolution Thinking
Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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Knock Marriage People Yourself
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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Hate See Sex Symbol World Yourself
I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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Beginning Myself Photography Writing
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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Direct Evidence Hard Work Morning Myself
I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
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Appreciation Children Himself Remember Young
It wasn’t my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
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Actor Childhood Fantasy Movie Myself Thief
You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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Excuse Kind People Treat Yourself
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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Appearance Better Burn Learning
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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Celebrity Currency Myself Start Way

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