My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She’s definitely got some war stories.
BEN AFFLECKAnybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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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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I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn’t they? It’s great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, ‘I’m just gonna go to Hollywood!’ is that it seems unrealistic.
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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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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I’m doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it’s so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
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I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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Its not who you love. Its how.
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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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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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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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I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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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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