Ben Affleck Quotes

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

Ben Affleck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FailureFearFatherChildThink

Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'll be in your student film.' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.

Matthew Gray Gubler

GreatBuildingShortYouActingGo

When we first started, and I jumped in this band, I was like, 'I'm not a singer.' I didn't go to school to sing. I just played to have fun. But these guys teach me, and they show me stuff and give me courage to try new stuff.

Sonny Sandoval

CourageSchoolFunMeHave FunNew

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

Sloane Crosley

VacationBackWriteWeekendsFloor

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

Tom Hanks

HouseQuietChristmasWithoutWatch

'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.

Jason Day

SchoolGolfWallPicturesSwingOld

I write every night.

Jonathan Davis

NightWriteEveryI Write

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

Demetri Martin

WiseNothingEverPrinted

I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.

David Ulevitch

WorkMotherMeWillMoreShe

When I was growing up, and other people I knew were getting into trouble, I was somewhere in a deer stand or going to bed early so I could be up before dawn to hunt turkeys. My love of the outdoors kept me solid.

Donald Trump, Jr.

LovePeopleMeGrowing UpOutdoors

Taking even one therapy session is just one step in the right direction to getting help and getting better, so I think it's great. I love it. I've convinced a lot of my friends to get into therapy, and they've given it a shot. Sometimes it's not for everybody at that time.

Tyler Posey

LoveGreatTimeStepThinkBetter

There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.

Richelle Mead

InspirationGemsLittleHoldUs

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

Niklas Zennstrom

HopeBestFinancialInvestmentWill

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