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.
BEN AFFLECKSometimes the people we meet change us forever.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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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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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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The thing about online gambling is that it’s never away, it’s always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it’s designed to take advantage of that.
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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
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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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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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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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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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Its not who you love. Its how.
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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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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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It’s important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.
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