My professional success is really important to me, and my career is really important to me. It’s the most important thing to me outside of my family. I take it very seriously and work really, really hard at it. Family comes first, but this is something that’s really important to me too.
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.
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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’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’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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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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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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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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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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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 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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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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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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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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I’m human, just like anybody else.
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You get old, you slow down.
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