Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
BEN AFFLECKI’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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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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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
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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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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.
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Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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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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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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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.
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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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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 have a good instinct for what’s real and what’s not. I don’t have to second-guess myself.
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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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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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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 grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
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I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
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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.
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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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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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I’m human, just like anybody else.
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Yes, I’m going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
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I’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
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