150 Quotes by Casey Affleck

I think there's a certain amount of pressure depending on how demanding the part is, depending on how great the material is. I feel a certain amount of pressure to rise to the occasion.

Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.

The first thing that I remember auditioning for was a weather commercial in Boston, and I got the job. The idea of the commercial was that you ought to watch the weather in the morning so that you know what's gonna come later in the day.

I've done so many movies that are bad, with material that's so shallow, that you instantly scratch the surface, and there's nothing underneath.

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman. I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.

I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.

Sometimes I pick parts because I think, 'OK, it scares me,' and that's an indication it's going to be a good movie for me to do. Sometimes that leaves me in a terrible... Well, it doesn't always pan out, you know?