Fiona Marlene Affleck quote: "The most damaging aspect of abuse is the trauma to our hearts and souls from being betrayed by the people that we love and trust."

Every relationship is like a piece of tapestry. The most beautiful ones are woven with threads of tr...
FIONA MARLENE AFFLECK

I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ...
BEN AFFLECK

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni...
BEN AFFLECK

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif...
BEN AFFLECK

I'm tired of playing the brat.
CASEY AFFLECK

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead...
BEN AFFLECK

I like that best as I am so hairy
BEN AFFLECK

I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon, ... ...
BEN AFFLECK

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
BEN AFFLECK

[A rep for the event said a reason was not given for the stars' absence (but Garner is due in Novemb...
BEN AFFLECK

Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita co...
BEN AFFLECK

[Founded by vocalist Amy Lee and guitarist-songwriter Ben Moody in the late '90s, the band has only ...
BEN AFFLECK

In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast...
BEN AFFLECK

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel ...
BEN AFFLECK

One of the ways that I could contribute was to shill some memorabilia, and the other was to talk to ...
BEN AFFLECK

I kinda see my current position like this: 'Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta ...
BEN AFFLECK

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'l...
BEN AFFLECK

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our...
CASEY AFFLECK

I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to ...
BEN AFFLECK

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love ...
CASEY AFFLECK

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest chan...
CASEY AFFLECK

Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards ...
BEN AFFLECK

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of be...
BEN AFFLECK

All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhous...
CASEY AFFLECK

In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movi...
CASEY AFFLECK

People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week.
CASEY AFFLECK

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical...
BEN AFFLECK

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
CASEY AFFLECK

I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enj...
CASEY AFFLECK

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you...
BEN AFFLECK

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not oft...
CASEY AFFLECK

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little...
CASEY AFFLECK

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this p...
BEN AFFLECK

I think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent ...
CASEY AFFLECK

I have had a turtle, a guinea pig, a dog, girlfriends, and many sweet, playful, sleepy, loving, deli...
CASEY AFFLECK

I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was...
CASEY AFFLECK

I'm not that into the fake meat anymore. The familiar texture makes the transition from meat to soy ...
CASEY AFFLECK

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy...
CASEY AFFLECK

Was Andy Warhol a bisexual?
CASEY AFFLECK

But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.
CASEY AFFLECK

My mom still eats meat. I will encourage her when it's appropriate to not eat meat. In fact, when we...
CASEY AFFLECK

They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judg...
CASEY AFFLECK

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, sai...
BEN AFFLECK

Jackson said, laughing. ''You're both up against a deadline.
BEN AFFLECK

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influenti...
BEN AFFLECK

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff...
BEN AFFLECK

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you got...
BEN AFFLECK

I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commerc...
CASEY AFFLECK

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

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the ...
BEN AFFLECK

I once came out of the hotel, and Brad Pitt was in front of me. There were all these fans out there ...
CASEY AFFLECK

Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure ...
BEN AFFLECK

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth...
BEN AFFLECK

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's...
BEN AFFLECK

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acti...
BEN AFFLECK

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
CASEY AFFLECK

I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.
BEN AFFLECK

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

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.
BEN AFFLECK

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
BEN AFFLECK

They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judg...
CASEY AFFLECK

Stick a fork in me, I'm DONE!
BEN AFFLECK

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared,
BEN AFFLECK

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to liv...
BEN AFFLECK

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,
BEN AFFLECK

He used to be, actually a very successful actor. ... One of the things that's encouraging about that...
BEN AFFLECK

I think the message is not one about the United States or Japan or the Second World War, right or wr...
BEN AFFLECK

would make a superb public candidate for public office in the future.
BEN AFFLECK

On contract clauses: 'There's all this language where you can't jump out of a plane or ride motorcyc...
BEN AFFLECK

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
CASEY AFFLECK

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
BEN AFFLECK

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks ...
BEN AFFLECK

You [Maria Shriver] are so wonderful. You are so beautiful. I have wanted to meet you for the longes...
BEN AFFLECK

You can just start to feel really pregnant. Like you are the hugest person on the face of the planet...
BEN AFFLECK

I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in thei...
BEN AFFLECK

The thing about Interview is that it's very flattering. I guess that's all most magazines are. They ...
CASEY AFFLECK

I also learned to separate my experience on the set from how I felt about my performance in the movi...
CASEY AFFLECK

Columbia has this contemporary civilization program - western philosophy and political thought. The ...
CASEY AFFLECK

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the...
CASEY AFFLECK

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
CASEY AFFLECK

I haven't seen the movie yet - maybe I'm terrible, so I shouldn't really speak to it.
CASEY AFFLECK

I tell people I'm studying Ebonics.
CASEY AFFLECK

I have a very bad relationship with mice.
CASEY AFFLECK

I have no pets now.
CASEY AFFLECK

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate a...
CASEY AFFLECK

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold hi...
CASEY AFFLECK

It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.
CASEY AFFLECK

I tricked myself into doing this movie.
CASEY AFFLECK

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic an...
BEN AFFLECK

I feel horrified and sad and a great deal of empathy and lots of frustration.
BEN AFFLECK

It's not something that can be ameliorated with the one telethon we did the month afterward. It's a ...
BEN AFFLECK

[The hard times aren't over, Affleck cautioned.] Ultimately it's hard (to make a movie), especially ...
BEN AFFLECK

On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.
BEN AFFLECK

A friend - I was living with Matt Damon at the time - went in to audition for To Die For. When he me...
CASEY AFFLECK

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
CASEY AFFLECK

People bitch about losing their anonymity and then get insulted when someone doesn't recognize them ...
CASEY AFFLECK

[Smith couldn't resist elaborating:] It would be the most fictional role-playing ever. I'm no Afflec...
BEN AFFLECK

I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simu...
CASEY AFFLECK

Since I left school, I've been working on my music career. I would love to be a musician... I wish I...
CASEY AFFLECK

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I ...
CASEY AFFLECK

Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't lik...
BEN AFFLECK

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something a...
CASEY AFFLECK

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our...
CASEY AFFLECK

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It...
BEN AFFLECK

I'm not that smart.
CASEY AFFLECK

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being ob...
CASEY AFFLECK

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.
BEN AFFLECK

What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie,...
BEN AFFLECK

See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on yo...
BEN AFFLECK

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and a...
BEN AFFLECK

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who ...
BEN AFFLECK

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to Ca...
BEN AFFLECK

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemb...
BEN AFFLECK

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and f...
BEN AFFLECK

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of sha...
BEN AFFLECK

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.
CASEY AFFLECK

I believe veganism can be beneficial for the individual and the world, and of course the animal, but...
CASEY AFFLECK

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If ...
BEN AFFLECK

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst whe...
CASEY AFFLECK

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, ...
CASEY AFFLECK

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
CASEY AFFLECK

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

I feel like fame is wasted on me.
BEN AFFLECK

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

I'm human, just like anybody else.
BEN AFFLECK

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important t...
BEN AFFLECK

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own ...
BEN AFFLECK

You get old, you slow down.
BEN AFFLECK

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.
BEN AFFLECK

Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they...
BEN AFFLECK

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
BEN AFFLECK

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
BEN AFFLECK

Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well.
CASEY AFFLECK

Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're diffe...
CASEY AFFLECK

The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were 'The Elephant Man,' 'The Magnificent...
CASEY AFFLECK

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the...
CASEY AFFLECK

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
CASEY AFFLECK

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being ob...
CASEY AFFLECK

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked...
CASEY AFFLECK

The thing that kept bringing us back to Pete's movie is that it was a story about real people. It (a...
BEN AFFLECK

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
MARLENE DIETRICH

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.
MARLENE DIETRICH

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my hear...
MARLENE DIETRICH

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
MARLENE DIETRICH

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with mu...
MARLENE DIETRICH

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can...
MARLENE DIETRICH

Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like ...
MARLENE DIETRICH

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an ...
MARLENE DIETRICH

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you we...
MARLENE DIETRICH

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
MARLENE DIETRICH

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
MARLENE DIETRICH

Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us,...
MARLENE DIETRICH

The most damaging aspect of abuse is the trauma to our hearts and souls from being betrayed by the people that we love and trust.

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The most damaging aspect of abuse is the trauma to our hearts and souls from being betrayed by the people that we love and trust.

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