150 Quotes by Casey Affleck

Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

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

A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.

When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.

Since I left school, I've been working on my music career. I would love to be a musician... I wish I could just sit around and play music for myself, but I can't. I just don't have the skills... the skills to pay the bills.

I have had many, many cats. We seem to connect well. I had a snake when I was a boy. It was given to me on my birthday.

I have had a turtle, a guinea pig, a dog, girlfriends, and many sweet, playful, sleepy, loving, delicious cats. I love the way cats look at me.

I make out with Christina Ricci... many times. But no real love scenes. I'm dying to.