Casey Affleck Quotes

• For people who have… had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

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• I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.

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• I have a very bad relationship with mice.

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• My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don’t put me in danger.

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  Tags in Open Minded, Choice, Listening, Conversation

• I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I’m so nervous and obsessed. I’m just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I’m really tense.

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• You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

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• People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week.

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• My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

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  Tags in Tree

• In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

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• I didn’t have to audition. That’s common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think… let the character develop and grow inside me.

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• Why can’t people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it’s sappy?

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• After I left LA… it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

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• When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I’ll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I’m good.

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• When a performance isn’t working, it’s usually because the actor is trying to do something and they’re not able to express their idea very well. It’s a muddled expression.

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• They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There’s nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won’t be good.

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• The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it’s a very different movie.

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  Tags in Mostly

• The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn’t let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

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• People bitch about losing their anonymity and then get insulted when someone doesn’t recognize them from whatever success they’ve had.

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• It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.

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• If I can’t see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

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Casey Affleck (25)

Birth:	12th August, 1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Casey Affleck was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He is an American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He first came to attention for his performances in Gus Van Sant's films To Die For, Good Will Hunting and Gerry. He gained widespread recognition in 2007, starring in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and Gone Baby Gone, directed by his brother Ben. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2002 film Gerry with Gus Van Sant and Matt Damon. In 2010 he released his first major directorial effort, I'm Still Here, a mockumentary about the musical career of his friend and brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix, who attempted to live a lifestyle of a rapper in one year.

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