Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
BEN AFFLECKIt 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.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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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 feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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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 have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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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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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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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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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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I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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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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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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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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I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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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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