Ben Affleck Quotes
I've got to work really hard and I know exactly what I've achieved because I know how hard I've worked, and I make sure to work as hard as I absolutely possibly can, because I know that's the only shot I have at being successful.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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Those who go along get along.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.
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I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
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The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.
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I've got to work really hard and I know exactly what I've achieved because I know how hard I've worked, and I make sure to work as hard as I absolutely possibly can, because I know that's the only shot I have at being successful.
