You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
BEN AFFLECKBut 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.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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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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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 what you’re doing, if you’re trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
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I don’t go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: “Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor.”
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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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 something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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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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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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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.
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You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
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