Casey Affleck Quotes

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Casey Affleck

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 12, 1975

Most of my acting jobs have resulted in a series of mortifying revelations spread over years and years following the shoot.

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I sort of fell in love with it when I was in high school doing theater. And so, as sometimes happens when kids - they graduate high school, and people turn to them and say, 'So what are you going to do with your life?' I thought, 'Well, I like being onstage. I like being an actor.'

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I believe that any kind of mistreatment of anyone for any reason is unacceptable and abhorrent, and everyone deserves to be treated with respect in the workplace and anywhere else.

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I wish I had more control over my career, but making movies is something you do with lots of people.

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I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

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When you're the younger brother, usually it's not that common that you're having these experiences that your older brother is in awe of.

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I feel really lucky to have been able to not only have him as a brother - because I love him and he's such a smart guy and an interesting, fun guy - but also have a friend to go through and chart and navigate the waters of Hollywood, which can be kind of alienating and lonely at times just because everyone is always... you know what it's like.

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I've written some love letters in my life, I can say.

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I think there's a certain amount of pressure depending on how demanding the part is, depending on how great the material is. I feel a certain amount of pressure to rise to the occasion.

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Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.

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The first thing that I remember auditioning for was a weather commercial in Boston, and I got the job. The idea of the commercial was that you ought to watch the weather in the morning so that you know what's gonna come later in the day.

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I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.

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It's really fun when a scene doesn't work.

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