248 Quotes by Ben Affleck

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    After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

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    I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

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    I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon. It's representative of what I've seen people doing all over the Low Country around here.

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    I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

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    I was glad I did, except when I was wandering around in my real life with this big red Afro. I looked like Ronald McDonald.

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    I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

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

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    I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

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