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.
BEN AFFLECKThere’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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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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God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.
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I feel things more deeply anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
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I’m much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they’re dating or what clothes they’re wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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I’ve seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn’t make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
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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’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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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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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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You get old, you slow down.
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