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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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 na...

Ben Affleck

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

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I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

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Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

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I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

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Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

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I'm human, just like anybody else.

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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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The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

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I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.

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The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.

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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.

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I feel like fame is wasted on me.

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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.

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I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

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I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

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When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

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As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

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There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.

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I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.

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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