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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.

Ben Affleck

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
There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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Energy Internet Voice World
Yes, 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.
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Known Movie President Yourself
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’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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Failure Hold Movie Myself Work
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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Aspect Body Children Difference Feeling Life Myself Reach Vulnerable
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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Fame Feeling Myself Wasted Time
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
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
Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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Movie Scripture Stuff Watch
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
I try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
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Failure Myself Permission Success Try
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 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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Couple Finding Hollywood Missing Recognition Yourself
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
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

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