Casey Affleck Quotes
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Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.
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When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'
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I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.
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You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.
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I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
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I'm tired of answering questions about myself.
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When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.
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My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
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When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad.
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When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
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My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.
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I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem.
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When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.
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Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.
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I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.
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But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.
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I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.
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All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.
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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
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The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.
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People should try eating no animal products for just one day a week.
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You sleep with people all the time that you hate.
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I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.
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I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.