Ben Affleck Quotes
But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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I can't do too much musical movement with a lot of MC's, because they don't know how to follow me. But with Souls of Mischief, I could go anywhere because they are musicians - they rap as musicians, and they play instruments and produce, so they get that.
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When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
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It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.
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'There are men in Spain who need me, who trust me. They're not special men, they wouldn't look very well in Carlton House, but they are fighting for all of you. That's why I'm here.'
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But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.
