People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
BEN AFFLECKYou have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I’m human, just like anybody else.
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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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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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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 want to thank my wife who I don’t normally usually associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It’s good. It is work, but it’s the best kind of work, and there’s no one I’d rather work with!
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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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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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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
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Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.
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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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Its not who you love. Its how.
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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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