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.
BEN AFFLECKOne guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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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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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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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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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I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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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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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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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 like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
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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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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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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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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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If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt — and fueled even more than Hollywood by money — if that’s possible.
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