A biography for Ben Affleckhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.”
“When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.”
“I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.”