Ben Affleck Quotes
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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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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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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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There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.
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I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
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Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.
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I get to the point where I feel relaxed, and then I just shoot a ton of material and make a lot of different choices.
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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'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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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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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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When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
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He used to be, actually a very successful actor. ... One of the things that's encouraging about that is it represents citizen politicians, people that aren't career politicians.
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Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
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A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
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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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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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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
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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.
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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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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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It's wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money.
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I love being a father, it's wonderful. It's changed my life. All the clichés are true.