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.
BEN AFFLECKStudios 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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I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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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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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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I kinda see my current position like this: Here’s your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before ‘Chuck Woolery’ rings the bell.
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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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I have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.
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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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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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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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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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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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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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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.
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You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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