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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

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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Myself Preparation Professional Time Try Work
Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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Evil Money Root Yourself
I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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Aspect Feeling Important Movie Myself
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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Food Goodness Known Pattern
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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Corruption Depression Money Politics Possible Thinking
Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
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Footage Mistake Movie Personal
You have to pay people real money.
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Money Pay People Reality
Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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Dangerous War
No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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Change Pay Price Yourself
I don’t go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: “Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor.”
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Feeling Monitor Oneself Past
But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn’t know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
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Direct Evidence Hard Work Morning Myself
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.
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Direction Past Stage Theatre Yourself
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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Access Commodity Investment Pay Studio Yourself
I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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Home Myself Time Woman
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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Known Movie President Yourself
I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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Feeling Myself People Try Value
I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn’t they? It’s great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, ‘I’m just gonna go to Hollywood!’ is that it seems unrealistic.
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Greatness Hollywood People Realistic Thinking
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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Current Goodness Movie Position Ring Yourself
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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Goodness Instinct Myself Reality
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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Fear Forget Job Momentum Stop Time Yourself
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.
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Care Family Important Myself Professional Success
Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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Change Forever Ourselves People
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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Business Crazy Kind Movie People
I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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Environment Esteem Growth Home Myself
I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It’s such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don’t want to be a sex symbol.
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Hate See Sex Symbol World Yourself
It wasn’t my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
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Actor Childhood Fantasy Movie Myself Thief
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
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Divorce Experience Life Myself Pleasant Suffering World

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