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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.

Ben Affleck

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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Decision Man Myself People School
Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is.
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Gamble Goodness Hard Work Online Seduce Yourself
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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Appreciation Children Himself Remember Young
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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Exploitation God Money Movie Myself
Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
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Access Commodity Investment Pay Studio Yourself
Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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Evil Money Root Yourself
I’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger,’ and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
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Description Emotion Feeling Identity Insecurity Myself
When you hire great actors, you’re lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You’re happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director’s chair.
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Creation Director Greatness Name Risk Yourself
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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Father Fear Hope Key Myself Optimism See 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
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
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Charge Education Library Money Public Wasted Time Yourself
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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Knock Life Yourself
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 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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Fear Forget Job Momentum Stop Time Yourself
I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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Appearance Man Myself World
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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Actor Finding Trap Trying Yourself

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