Ben Affleck Quotes

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Ben Affleck

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 15, 1972

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

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Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

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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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There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

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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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Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

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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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The first day of 'The Town' was one of the most satisfying days of my career.

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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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I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.

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I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

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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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I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. 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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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 like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.

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You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

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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.

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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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There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

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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 times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

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