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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There is not love where there is no will.
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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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When people get scared, they quit giving.
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You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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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.
