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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.

Ben Affleck

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Ben Affleck
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 15
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One of the things it channelled in me was that experience that I'd had of wearing a big red leather thing on my upper torso in Daredevil with a mask I couldn't see through and an outfit that completely inhibited movement, feeling humiliated and like a fool. I just recalled that.
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There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency... You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
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They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!
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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
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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.
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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
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Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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I get to the point where I feel relaxed, and then I just shoot a ton of material and make a lot of different choices.
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No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
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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.
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(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.
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