Ben Affleck Quotes
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Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.
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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.
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I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.
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You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.
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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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I love being a father, it's wonderful. It's changed my life. All the clichés are true.
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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
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It's not something that can be ameliorated with the one telethon we did the month afterward. It's a continuing process.
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The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
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No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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The first day of 'The Town' was one of the most satisfying days of my career.
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Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person.
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Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
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I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.
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My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
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I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies.
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Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.
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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.