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.
BEN AFFLECKMy 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.
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Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is.
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
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I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I’ll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I’ll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
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You get old, you slow down.
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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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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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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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I kinda see my current position like this: Here’s your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before ‘Chuck Woolery’ rings the bell.
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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When you hire great actors, you’re lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You’re happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director’s chair.
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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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You have to pay people real money.
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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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But 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.
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I’ve never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
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