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.
BEN AFFLECKThe best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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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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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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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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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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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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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’ve never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
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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 have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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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 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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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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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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