Ben Affleck Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I want to thank my wife who I don't normally usually associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It's good. It is work, but it's the best kind of work, and there's no one I'd rather work with!”
-- Ben AffleckSource : Ben Affleck's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 24, 2013.
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“There's a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.”
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“Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.”
-- Ben AffleckSource : "Fictional character: Holden". "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", www.imdb.com. 2001.
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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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“It's important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life,”
-- Ben AffleckSource : Ben Affleck speech at People's Choice Awards, www.eonline.com. January, 2015.
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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.”
-- Ben AffleckSource : "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. July 27, 2004.
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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.”
-- Ben AffleckSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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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“Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.”
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“My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.”
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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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“I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.”
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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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“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 on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.”
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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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“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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“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 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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“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 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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“I've finally learnt 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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.”
-- Ben AffleckSource : Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. October 10, 2007.
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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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