Ben Affleck quotes

 quotes - I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

“I find forgiveness to be really healthy.”

— Ben Affleck

 quotes - There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.

“There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.”

— Ben Affleck

 quotes - I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

“I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.”

— Ben Affleck

 quotes - There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

“There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.”

— Ben Affleck

“I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.”

— Ben Affleck

“Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.”

— Ben Affleck

“I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.”

— 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 is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.”

— Ben Affleck

“All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.”

— Ben Affleck

“I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.”

— Ben Affleck

“I'm human, just like anybody else.”

— Ben Affleck

“Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.”

— Ben Affleck

“There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.”

— Ben Affleck

“My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.”

— Ben Affleck

“Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.”

— Ben Affleck

“The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.”

— Ben Affleck

“I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.”

— Ben Affleck

“My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.”

— Ben Affleck

“I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.”

— Ben Affleck

“When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.”

— 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

“I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.”

— Ben Affleck

“My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.”

— Ben Affleck

“I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.”

— Ben Affleck

“People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.”

— 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 quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.”

— Ben Affleck

“I feel like fame is wasted on me.”

— Ben Affleck

“I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.”

— Ben Affleck

“I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.”

— Ben Affleck

“I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.”

— Ben Affleck