Ben Affleck Quotes

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.

Ben Affleck

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 15, 1972

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I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.

Joaquin Phoenix

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All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

Jesse Eisenberg

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How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's interested in finding and studying black holes. Because black holes are objects whose pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape it, not even light, so you can't see it directly.

Andrea M. Ghez

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Saddam was a bad guy. Assad's a bad guy. Nobody's denying that.

Jeff Duncan

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Nothing more threatens Vladimir Putin than not being able to track his own citizens.

Michael Hayden

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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

Rufus Wainwright

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I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.

Mickey Spillane

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In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

Donnie Wahlberg

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A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

David Simon

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I don't like kissing on camera. It's bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole crew watching you, it's a little weird.

Christine Lakin

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I love standing up behind the blocks, and I love that moment just before you dive in and it goes quiet, and you take a deep breath and you just dive, and then you try and win, but that moment just before I go, that's why I race.

Bronte Campbell

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I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.

Asafa Powell

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