Ben Affleck Quotes
I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. 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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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
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When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
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If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
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I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. 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.
