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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

Ben Affleck

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 dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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Color Hairs Myself Photography
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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Easy Feeling Force Myself Talent
The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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Alcohol Best Cure Man Sex
You get old, you slow down.
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Age Old Slow Time Yourself
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
Its not who you love. Its how.
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Love Way Yourself
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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Chance Goodness Need Space Time Try
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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Hands Leaving Life Realize Yourself
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
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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Actor Greatness Magazine Myself Weapon
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
I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it’s not even a meritocracy. It’s about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it’s impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I’ve always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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Couple Finding Hollywood Missing Recognition Yourself
If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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Define Moral Ourselves Price Try Universe
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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Complication Day Direction Function Movie Pay Time Yourself
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.
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Description Emotion Feeling Identity Insecurity Myself

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