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.
BEN AFFLECKMemories, 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.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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Directing is monumentally complicated and it’s a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I’m not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, ‘yeah, it’s good!’ Some day.
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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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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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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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I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
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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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It’s important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.
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I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.
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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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You have to pay people real money.
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