I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
BEN AFFLECKYes, I’m going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it’s not even a meritocracy. It’s about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it’s impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I’ve always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
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I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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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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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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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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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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You have to pay people real money.
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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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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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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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I feel things more deeply anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
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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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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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