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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.

Ben Affleck

I feel like fame is wasted on me.
BEN AFFLECK

Fame Feeling Myself Wasted Time
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Compromise Live Romance Rule Society Yourself
Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
BEN AFFLECK

Evil Money Root Yourself
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Couple Finding Hollywood Missing Recognition Yourself
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Exploitation God Money Movie Myself
I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
BEN AFFLECK

Color Hairs Myself Photography
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Direction Past Stage Theatre Yourself
There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
BEN AFFLECK

Energy Internet Voice World
Memories, 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.
BEN AFFLECK

Balance Erase Experience Fabric Memories Myself
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Hands Leaving Life Realize Yourself
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Food Goodness Known Pattern
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.
BEN AFFLECK

Easy Feeling Force Myself Talent
No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
BEN AFFLECK

Change Pay Price Yourself
Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
BEN AFFLECK

Dangerous War
You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
BEN AFFLECK

Excuse Kind People Treat Yourself
You have to pay people real money.
BEN AFFLECK

Money Pay People Reality

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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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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