Casey Affleck quote: "The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse."

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

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

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 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

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

One thing can happen, but another can fight it. Don't think it's impossible unless you've tried it.
CASEY

Some times people put up walls not to block people out. But to see who cares enough to knock them do...
CASEY

Life is a burden, not everyone knows that. You should be glad you are alive to witness our changes.
CASEY

Today's been a long day, and so will the next. But giving the effort equals success.
CASEY

The smallest can be capable of something larger than you. Don't be stupid and underestimate too.
CASEY

No matter what happens, or what someone says, it will not change WHO I AM.
CASEY

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

I have 60-plus videos on YouTube and over 30 million views. Of those 60, only three or four are bran...
CASEY NEISTAT

I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.
CASEY NEISTAT

I love seeing the way in which young people embrace video, and the YouTube vlogger is a fantastic ph...
CASEY NEISTAT

Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.
CASEY NEISTAT

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new ...
ROBERT CASEY

Abortion is a question of choice.
ROBERT CASEY

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
CASEY STENGEL

Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, a...
CASEY KASEM

In '92, I got my first Broadway show as a performer - 'Crazy for You.' I was in the ense...
CASEY NICHOLAW

I lived in Cleveland for a summer when I was 12, and I was a ball boy for the Browns, which few peop...
CASEY WASSERMAN

My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.
CASEY KASEM

You can't just put a bubble over the Westside of L.A. and pretend like there aren't other pr...
CASEY WASSERMAN

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it thirt...
CASEY STENGEL

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be i...
CASEY STENGEL

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
CASEY STENGEL

I don't know if he throws a spit ball, but he sure spits on the ball.
CASEY STENGEL

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin t...
CASEY STENGEL

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.
CASEY STENGEL

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an ...
CASEY STENGEL

I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
CASEY STENGEL

What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, t...
CASEY JAMES

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you beg...
CASEY STENGEL

I was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsig...
CASEY NEISTAT

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is consta...
CASEY MILLER

All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
CASEY MILLER

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.
CASEY KASEM

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a sociali...
WILLIAM CASEY

Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successf...
CASEY STENGEL

We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting.
CASEY STENGEL

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still unde...
CASEY STENGEL

I love the area I grew up in, which is right outside D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.
CASEY WILSON

The All-Star Game represents everything we as a nation love about basketball on and off the court - ...
CASEY WASSERMAN

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with...
CASEY WILSON

I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome sp...
CASEY NEISTAT

I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.
CASEY NEISTAT

Garbage. It's a natural quality of huskiness in the midrange of my voice that I call 'garbag...
CASEY KASEM

My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a ch...
CASEY WILSON

I think you should dress nicely for airports. You're surrounded by people coming from all walks ...
CASEY NEISTAT

The reason why people wear pajamas to the airport in the first place is so that they'll be comfo...
CASEY NEISTAT

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a s...
ROBERT CASEY

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
CASEY STENGEL

There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
CASEY STENGEL

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
CASEY STENGEL

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
CASEY STENGEL

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
CASEY STENGEL

The team has come along slow but fast.
CASEY STENGEL

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
CASEY STENGEL

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who ...
CASEY STENGEL

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, an...
CASEY STENGEL

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
CASEY STENGEL

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're su...
CASEY STENGEL

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her...
CASEY STENGEL

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.
CASEY STENGEL

Without losers, where would the winners be?
CASEY STENGEL

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.

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The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.

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