There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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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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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I’m sure I can make a movie that doesn’t feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that’s my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
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People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.
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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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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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I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there’s also that fear, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be like my father,’ or, ‘I hope my kid doesn’t turn out like me.’ You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.
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Its not who you love. Its how.
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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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I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.
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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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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?
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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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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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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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