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 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 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 I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to ...
BEN 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 I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical...
BEN AFFLECK There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you...
BEN 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 [Smith couldn't resist elaborating:] It would be the most fictional role-playing ever. I'm no Afflec...
BEN AFFLECK Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't lik...
BEN AFFLECK I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It...
BEN 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 To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If ...
BEN 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 The thing that kept bringing us back to Pete's movie is that it was a story about real people. It (a...
BEN AFFLECK I'm tired of playing the brat.
CASEY AFFLECK The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our...
CASEY 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 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 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 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 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 I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commerc...
CASEY 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 I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
CASEY AFFLECK They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judg...
CASEY AFFLECK I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
CASEY 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 most damaging aspect of abuse is the trauma to our hearts and souls from being betrayed by the p...
FIONA MARLENE AFFLECK Every relationship is like a piece of tapestry. The most beautiful ones are woven with threads of tr...
FIONA MARLENE AFFLECK Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ...
BEN MENDELSOHN The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
BEN MENDELSOHN I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN