My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She’s definitely got some war stories.
BEN AFFLECKPeople ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
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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’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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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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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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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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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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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’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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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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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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I’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
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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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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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