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Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn’t make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn’t make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

Ben Affleck

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.
BEN AFFLECK

Basement Hostel Mad Mom Myself Stay
A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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Call Client Himself Question Reason Sale
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Compromise Live Romance Rule Society Yourself
I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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Feeling Myself People Try Value
There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
BEN AFFLECK

Greatness Love Pure Romantic Sleep
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
BEN AFFLECK

Fame Feeling Myself Wasted Time
You get old, you slow down.
BEN AFFLECK

Age Old Slow Time Yourself
I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
BEN AFFLECK

Color Hairs Myself Photography
A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
BEN AFFLECK

Direction Past Stage Theatre Yourself
I want to thank my wife who I don’t normally usually associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It’s good. It is work, but it’s the best kind of work, and there’s no one I’d rather work with!
BEN AFFLECK

Association Goodness Kind Marriage Myself Thankful Wife Work
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
BEN AFFLECK

Actor Greatness Magazine Myself Weapon
Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn’t want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.
BEN AFFLECK

Balance Erase Experience Fabric Memories Myself
All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
BEN AFFLECK

Myself Preparation Professional Time Try Work
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Description Emotion Feeling Identity Insecurity Myself
There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
BEN AFFLECK

Energy Internet Voice World
You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
BEN AFFLECK

Excuse Kind People Treat Yourself

Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn’t make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn’t make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

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Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn’t make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn’t make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

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