Ben Affleck Quotes Page 2
Best 79 Quotes by Ben Affleck – Page 2 of 3
“I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.”
“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.”
“I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.”
“I’m trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.”
“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.”
“I’ve learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I’m going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.”
“If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.”
“In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.”
“It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Man is still good. We fight. We kill. We betray one another. But we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.”
“Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!”
“Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn’t want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.”
“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.”
“My kids aren't celebrities. They never made that bargain. We were offered a lot of money to sell pictures of our kids when they were born. You'll notice there aren't any. I make no judgment about people who decide differently; a lot of them give the money to charity. For me, it was a matter of principle.”
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“I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don’t like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.”
“No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.”
“No matter what you’re doing, if you’re trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.”
“Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.”
“One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.”
“People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.”
“People of similar political persuasions tend to flock together.”
“Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.”
“Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.”
“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.”
“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.”