Quotes By Ben Affleck

One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

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

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.

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

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'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.

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

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 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.

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

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

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

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.

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.

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.

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

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.

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.

I'm human, just like anybody else.

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

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

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 know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

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.

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.

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 get old, you slow down.

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

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

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.