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I’ve seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn’t make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

Ben Affleck

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
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
No matter what you’re doing, if you’re trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
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Better Creation Movie People Try Work Yourself
The thing about online gambling is that it’s never away, it’s always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it’s designed to take advantage of that.
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Advantage Design Gamble Issues Online Yourself
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
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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Call Hotel Myself Person Wake Up
I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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Beginning Myself Photography Writing
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
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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Entertainment Laughter Oneself Person Quite Screen Time
Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
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Footage Mistake Movie Personal
If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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Define Moral Ourselves Price Try Universe
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
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Basement Hostel Mad Mom Myself Stay
Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn’t want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.
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Balance Erase Experience Fabric Memories Myself
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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Feeling Monitor Oneself Past
A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
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Director Follow Friendship Job Kind Mom Yourself
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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I’ve seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn’t make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

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