I’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger,’ and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
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 casting is the most important aspect of making movies.
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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 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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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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You have to pay people real money.
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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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You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
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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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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
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I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It’s such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don’t want to be a sex symbol.
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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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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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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.
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