Ben Affleck Quotes

Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.

If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that.

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.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.

Its not who you love. Its how.

I dyed my hair for photo tests... I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?

I don't go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: "Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor."

The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

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.

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

A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.

I'm human, just like anybody else.

You have to pay people real money.

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.

People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff."

I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.

Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

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

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.

I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

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?

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.

I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.

I like to shoot until we have a relaxed environment on the set, and I try to schedule that.

(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.

It takes time to develop a sense of humor, shared world views.

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.

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

I feel better about my life every day. My kids get older. My life is very rich and full of wonderful things. I've been very lucky, careerwise.

School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

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

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.

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

I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

I love being a father, it's wonderful. It's changed my life. All the clichés are true.

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.

I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.

If I could be somebody, it'd definitely be Brad Pitt. I love the way he looks.

I like that best as I am so hairy.

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

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.

I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

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.

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.

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.