Ben Affleck

You can say what you want about me. You can yell at me with a video camera and be TMZ. You can…

— Ben Affleck

It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like…

— Ben Affleck

I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just…

— Ben Affleck

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being…

— Ben Affleck

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what…

— Ben Affleck

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one…

— Ben Affleck

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which…

— Ben Affleck

You don't know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you're going to get some…

— Ben Affleck

One of the things it channelled in me was that experience that I'd had of wearing a big red leather thing on…

— Ben Affleck

It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang!…

— Ben Affleck

Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally…

— Ben Affleck

I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made…

— Ben Affleck

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the…

— Ben Affleck

One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back…

— 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…

— Ben Affleck

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he…

— Ben Affleck

No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really…

— 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…

— Ben Affleck

Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such…

— Ben Affleck

What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go…

— Ben Affleck

It's important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did…

— Ben Affleck

My professional success is really important to me, and my career is really important to me. It's the most important thing to…

— Ben Affleck

I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like: "You can't do that", or "You can't…

— Ben Affleck

Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people…

— Ben Affleck

I feel things more deeply... anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life... Having a child…

— Ben Affleck

I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living…

— Ben Affleck

I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to…

— Ben Affleck

When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and…

— Ben Affleck

The value of work, and of always learning something new, and what it takes to achieve excellence. I really believe in those…

— Ben Affleck