Ben Affleck Quotes - Page 5

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• You don't know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you're going to get some good fried chicken.

  Ben Affleck

  Patterns, Chickens, Flour

  "Oscars Q&A: Ben Affleck". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 18, 2012.

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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.

  Ben Affleck

  Mistake, Directors, Actors

  "Oscar Watch: Why Affleck's 'Argo' Hits the Zeitgeist, Early Reviews" by Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2012.

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• You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

  Ben Affleck

  Seeing

  "Oscar Watch: Why Affleck’s ‘Argo’ Hits the Zeitgeist, Early Reviews" by Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

  Ben Affleck

  People, Kind, Conversation

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 24, 2004.

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• They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!

  Ben Affleck

  Baby, Boiler Room, Looks

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• How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren't fanatical, who don't punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?

  Ben Affleck

  School, People, Praying

  Source: app.longform.org

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• [Directing first film:] I was terrified, it was really very scary because there is a lot of responsibility. I think I was terrified because I wanted it to work so much. A lot of actors direct movies but I thought the stakes were kind of higher for me because I really, really cared. [...] I just worked as hard as I possibly could on every single thing, every single day. I said that if this failed it would not be because I didn't work as hard as I possibly could...every day.

  Ben Affleck

  Responsibility, Thinking, Scary

  "Gone Baby Gone - Ben Affleck interview" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

  Ben Affleck

  Ideas, Would Be, Answers

  ""Argo" director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2012.

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• After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

  Ben Affleck

  Thinking, Frustrated, Acting

  ""Argo" director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2012.

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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.

  Ben Affleck

  Couple, Father, Years

  "THR Cover: Confessions of Ben Affleck" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2012.

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• You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

  Ben Affleck

  Evil, Knows, Universe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.

  Ben Affleck

  Media, Voice, America

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. July 27, 2004.

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• I don't think the government should be involved in any way in people's bedrooms or lives. With so much hatred and unpleasantness in the world, why would you want to get in the way of people who love each other marrying each other?

  Ben Affleck

  Thinking, Government, People

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• I never really thought of myself as a beefcake kind of guy.

  Ben Affleck

  Perspective, Guy, Kind

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• It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.

  Ben Affleck

  Philosophy, Taken, Writing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.

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• If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are up to snuff and give them what they can really kind of get their cars out on the track and open up the accelerator a little bit.

  Ben Affleck

  Car, Track, Giving

  "Justice League: Ben Affleck Says Batman Seeks to 'Redeem Himself' After Brutal BVS". Interview with Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. June 21, 2016.

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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 janitor at Harvard.

  Ben Affleck

  Mother, Dad, School

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• 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.

  Ben Affleck

  Boston, Providence, South

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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.

  Ben Affleck

  Careers, Actors, Want

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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.

  Ben Affleck

  Firsts, Enough, Understood

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• Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

  Ben Affleck

  Dating, Rumor, Damon

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• I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.

  Ben Affleck

  Girlfriend, Able, Great Relationship

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like: "You can't do that", or "You can't do this. This will position you in the wrong way." That's not my thing. And obviously so, because you can see I don't craft or cultivate my career.

  Ben Affleck

  Careers, Actors, Crafts

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• But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.

  Ben Affleck

  Successful, Effort, Balance

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

  Ben Affleck

  Mom, Boys, Years

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