Quotes by Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck

A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?

Boiler Room

Clients

Way

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.

Boiler Room

Evil

Roots

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.

Actors

Careers

Want

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.

Hard Work

Morning

Up Early

Directing is monumentally complicated and it’s a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I’m not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, ‘yeah, it’s good!’ Some day.

Pay

Thinking

Would Be

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.

Actors

Directors

Mistake

I don’t spend too much time just kicking back.

Kicking

Kicking Back

Too Much

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?

Government

People

Thinking

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.

Feel Better

Kids

Lucky

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.

Environment

Grew Up

Home

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Be Kind

Being In Love

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Boston

Brad

Careers

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Chickens

Clients

Commodity

Conversation

Cooking

Cost

Crazy

Dad

Damon

Dating

Daughter

Different

Directors

Disappointment

Divorce

Done

Dream

Energy

Environment

Evil

Fabric

Father

Feel Better

Fifty

Finding Yourself

Firsts

Flour

Funny

Gambling

Gay

Genius

Get Up

Girlfriend

Government

Great Relationship

Great Year

Grew Up

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Quotes by Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck

A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.

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.

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.

Directing is monumentally complicated and it’s a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I’m not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, ‘yeah, it’s good!’ Some day.

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.

I don’t spend too much time just kicking back.

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?

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.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.

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