Ben Affleck Quotes

• 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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• All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.

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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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• 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 like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I’ll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I’ll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

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• It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of ’98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.

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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 find forgiveness to be really healthy.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Ben Affleck (48)

Birth:	15th August, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Benjamin Géza Affleck Boldt, better known as Ben Affleck, is an American actor, film director, writer, and producer. He became known with his performances in such Kevin Smith films as Mallrats 1995, Chasing Amy 1997 and Dogma 1999. Affleck won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the screenplay for Good Will Hunting 1997, which he co-wrote with Matt Damon, and has appeared in lead roles in such popular hits as Armageddon 1998, Pearl Harbor 2001, Changing Lanes 2002, The Sum of All Fears 2002, Daredevil 2003, Hollywoodland 2007, State of Play 2009 and The Town 2010.
Affleck is a critically acclaimed film director. Affleck has been actively involved in politics and charitable causes. He and Matt Damon founded the production company LivePlanet. In 2012 they founded a new company called Pearl Street Films.

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