Ben Affleck

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.”

“I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.”

“What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody.”

“Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.”

“Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn't around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with 'Jurassic Park' and its primeval-dinosaur universe.”

“I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.”

“I'm human, just like anybody else.”

“I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.”

“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.”

“I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.”

“אני לא הטיפוס שנהנה מסטוץ חד פעמי. זה גורם לי להרגיש מאוד ריקני וציני. זה אפילו לא כיף במובן המיני. אני צריך להרגיש משהו כלפי האישה ולבדר את עצמי בתקוות השווא שזה יכול להוביל למערכת יחסים.”

“המלכודת של שחקן היא שאתה מצליח יותר מדי במה שאתה מנסה לעשות, ואתה יכול למצוא את עצמך תקוע שם.”

“אף אחד לא מספר סיפורים על המטוס שנחת בשלום: אנשים אוהבים לשמוע על המטוס שהתרסק, וכך גם עם שחקנים ובמאים. אנשים אוהבים לדבר על הנפילות. הגישה שלי היא שלפעמים זה עובד ולפעמים לא. יש סרטים מוצלחים יותר ויש כאלה שלא. אני מקווה שישפטו אותי נכונה כשהסרט הבא שלי ייצא ולא יתרכזו בסרט הקודם.”

“הייתי רוצה לשלב בין המשחק והבימוי, ואם אוכל לשחק בסרטים שאביים מה טוב. כל עוד תהיה לי הזדמנות לעשות זאת אשחק בסרטים שלי. הבעיה היחידה היא שבימוי לוקח המון זמן וזה יכול לבוא על חשבון המשחק.”

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

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

“It's wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money.”