Quotes by Ben Affleck

About Ben Affleck:

Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt is an American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
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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.

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I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywoo...

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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

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I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

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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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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 grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

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I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

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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 jan...

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

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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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One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

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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 really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

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I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

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I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that di...

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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameBen Affleck
  • DescriptionAmerican film actor, director and screenwriter
  • BornAugust 15, 1972
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Screenwriter; Film Director; Film Producer; Television Actor; Film Actor; Poker Player; Writer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Writing (Original Screenplay); Directors Guild Of America Award