Ben Affleck Quotes:- Ben Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include two Academy Awards. Affleck began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi (1984, 1988). He later appeared in the independent comedy Dazed and Confused (1993) and various Kevin Smith films.
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“I feel like fame is wasted on me.”
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“I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.”
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“I’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger’, and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.”
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“I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.”
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“I’ve learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I’m going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.”
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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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“My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31 years old, and I don’t want to sleep in a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.”
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“My movies are unadorned, they’re not particularly fancy, I think they’re kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.”
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“A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.”
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“There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You’re embarrassed by your parents, and you’re trying to find your independence because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.”
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“All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time, and be prepared.”
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“I kinda see my current position like this: Here are your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before ‘Chuck Woolery’ rings the bell.”
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“Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.”
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“Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.”
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“I’m human, just like anybody else.”
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“Narcissism is part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don’t like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.”
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“There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.”
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“There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.”
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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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“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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“Well, I’ve never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.”
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“Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.”
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“You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.”
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“The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.”
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“I’m sure I can make a movie that doesn’t feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that’s my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.”
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“Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you’re responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.”
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“I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.”
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“My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple of times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.”
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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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“Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That’s who I’m dating.”
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20+ Ben Affleck Quotes About Life
“Yes, I’m going to be the President of the United States. Do you know why? Do 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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“People of similar political persuasions tend to flock together.”
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“God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.”
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“Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!”
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“I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It’s such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don’t want to be a sex symbol.”
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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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“I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.”
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“You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.”
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“I’ve finally learned how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.”
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“As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.”
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“But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn’t know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.”
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“One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.”
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“I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise, no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.”
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“I find forgiveness to be really healthy.”
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“People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.”
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“The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.”
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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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