Ben Affleck Quotes
I was glad I did, except when I was wandering around in my real life with this big red Afro. I looked like Ronald McDonald.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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Two is enough for a secret.
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I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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I was glad I did, except when I was wandering around in my real life with this big red Afro. I looked like Ronald McDonald.
