Ben Affleck Quotes (42 Quotes)

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.

You Maria Shriver are so wonderful. You are so beautiful. I have wanted to meet you for the longest time. I'm hitting on you because you're husband is on the other side of the room.

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

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 feel like fame is wasted on me.

I dyed my hair for photo tests, ... I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again

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

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.

He used to be, actually a very successful actor. ... One of the things that's encouraging about that is it represents citizen politicians, people that aren't career politicians.

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

You couldn't breathe. The lights didn't work and the radio transmitters would emit this incredibly high-pitched white noise.

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.

I think the message is not one about the United States or Japan or the Second World War, right or wrong,

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

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

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

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.

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.

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.

Smith couldn't resist elaborating It would be the most fictional role-playing ever. I'm no Affleck, which is bad in the bedroom, but good professionally. It's good not to be Ben Affleck professionally, because then I don't have to explain 'Gigli' ... for the next ten years.

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.

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

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

I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.

You can just start to feel really pregnant. Like you are the hugest person on the face of the planet,

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.

On contract clauses 'There's all this language where you can't jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.

would make a superb public candidate for public office in the future.

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.

I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon, ... It's representative of what I've seen people doing all over the Low Country around here.

I think one of the dangers of great tragedies like this is, once they fall away from the 24-hour news cycle, there's a tendency to think, Well that's dealt with,'

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.

In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast in the movie. I got a list of two names Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck. I was lucky enough to get them both.

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.

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.

The hard times aren't over, Affleck cautioned. Ultimately it's hard (to make a movie), especially with a low budget, ... He's not going to see his wife and kid or be able to sleep.

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.

The thing that kept bringing us back to Pete's movie is that it was a story about real people. It (also) had a very specific locale Chicago is to this movie what Boston was to 'Good Will Hunting,' ... It was enormously heartfelt and, ultimately, nobody could deny being moved by his story.

Founded by vocalist Amy Lee and guitarist-songwriter Ben Moody in the late '90s, the band has only gained momentum since its song Bring Me To Life ... Daredevil.

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

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