One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
BEN AFFLECKI 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.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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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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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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The thing about online gambling is that it’s never away, it’s always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it’s designed to take advantage of that.
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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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You get old, you slow down.
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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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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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How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren’t fanatical, who don’t punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?
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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.
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There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency. You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
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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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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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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 have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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