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.
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’ve seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn’t make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
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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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If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt — and fueled even more than Hollywood by money — if that’s possible.
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Its not who you love. Its how.
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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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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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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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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.
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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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I try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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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 think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there’s also that fear, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be like my father,’ or, ‘I hope my kid doesn’t turn out like me.’ You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.
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