Ben Affleck

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  • “All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.” -Ben Affleck

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  • “There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.” -Ben Affleck

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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.” -Ben Affleck

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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.” -Ben Affleck

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  • “But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn’t know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.” -Ben Affleck

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  • “A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.” -Ben Affleck

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  • “Marriage hasn’t been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!” -Ben Affleck

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  • “I’ve finally learnt how to say, ‘No comment’. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.” -Ben Affleck

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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.” -Ben Affleck

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  • “I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.” -Ben Affleck

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  • “I find forgiveness to be really healthy.” -Ben Affleck

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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.” -Ben Affleck

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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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  • “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

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