Ben Affleck Quotes

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.

They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.

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

Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.

It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.

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.

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

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

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

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.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

I'm trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.

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.

Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

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

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

Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?

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.

I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

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.

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.

You get old, you slow down.

I have a good instinct for what's real and what's not. I don't have to second-guess myself.

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.

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.

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

No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

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.

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.

On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.

I don't spend too much time just kicking back.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There's no excuse for not.

The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.