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Casey Affleck

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 12, 1975

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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I've seen 'Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' about 25 times each, so I like all kinds of movies, but I'm drawn, as an actor, to dramas about humans living lives I can relate to.

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I've done so many movies that are bad, with material that's so shallow, that you instantly scratch the surface, and there's nothing underneath.

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Part of the criteria for doing a project is that it's scary or challenging because at some point you go, 'It's too scary; it's too challenging. I don't want to do it.' But things that seem easy are never any fun.

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It's part of the actor's job to show up with a head full of steam, to have their own take on this. So that way, you're not relying on, 'OK, tell me how to do it.'

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I've chosen the parts that have interested me and parts that I thought I could do a job with but also were challenging and a little bit scary.

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Things are never crystal clear, but at some point, they reveal themselves to you. You just hope it happens when you're still on set.

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Is it really every 10 years that you get to work on a great movie? That can't be.

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You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.

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When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

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If you're a director and someone shows up and asks how I do it, I'd imagine, as a director, you're like, 'Man, I've got a million decisions to make; can you show up with an idea for the scene?'

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My first exposure to TV, film, theater, the idea of what acting was, is I was a little kid, and my mom's best friend was a local casting director in Cambridge, Mass. Her name was Patty Collinge.

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Some people go to their job. That's the job they have; they have to do it. They hate their boss and their coworkers, this and that. It's hard to get along.

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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 have been lucky enough to work with people who inspire me, who I admire and respect, and who have made films - before working with me - that I continually return to over the years because they are so good.

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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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I have a very bad relationship with mice.

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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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I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

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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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