Ben Affleck Quotes

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.

Ben Affleck

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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Done

• I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Want

• Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Actor
  • Just
  • Brilliant

• The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Past

• I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Show

• My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Different
  • You

• I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Trying
  • I Can
  • Skills

• I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Doing

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Eye
  • Look
  • Actor

• When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Trying
  • House

• The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Trying
  • Community

• I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

  

  Beck
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Boring

• I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Trying
  • Mistakes
  • Worried

• I feel like, maybe in the '90s, 'Rookie' would have been shamed for trying to reach a lot of people or trying to be 'mainstream', but I'm so pleased that our readers are happy to see me promoting the 'Rookie' yearbook on TV or whatever.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Relax

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• You’re planning on chasing any kind of career or anything, it works fully throughout anybody’s life, you just don’t give up no matter what you do, and no matter how hard it gets you just keep trying as much as you can, and that’ll work out for you in the end.

  

  Laine Hardy
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Matter

• Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Death
  • Die
  • Door

• History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation." In my day, dissertations were still written by hand, or drummed out with a typewriter. In the past, you had to round up the literature, find the books and find the passages. Nowadays you click on Wikipedia or Google and you have everything you need. This probably makes it more difficult to resist temptation.

  

  Wolfgang Schauble
  • Prayer
  • Temptation
  • Typewriters

• It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent.

  

  John Dykstra
  • Up

• Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• 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.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Trying
  • Actor
  • Successful