Ben Affleck Quotes

It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.

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• The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Trouble

• My daughter is my passion and my life.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Daughter

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

  

  T. V. Carpio
  • Up
  • Trying
  • New

• I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Future
  • Down
  • Plan

• I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Like
  • Jewelry

• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

  

  U Thant
  • Men
  • Love
  • Compassion

• I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Contradiction
  • Scares
  • Stimulated

• I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Better
  • Did
  • Ohio

• I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Parent

• I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Home

• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Just keep taking chances and having fun.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Having Fun

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Time
  • Beauty
  • Sun

• I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Period
  • Nerd
  • Jockiness

• When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.

  

  Elana Dykewomon
  • Knows
  • Idea
  • Hero

• I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

  

  Charles Schwab
  • Work
  • Effort
  • Criticism

• I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Writing
  • Song

• People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Funny

• It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Work
  • Die
  • Childhood