Ben Affleck Quotes
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There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.
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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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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.
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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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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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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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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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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'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'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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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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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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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'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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I feel horrified and sad and a great deal of empathy and lots of frustration.
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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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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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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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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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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.