Casey Affleck Quotes (43 Quotes)


    When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

    I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

    The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

    Columbia has this contemporary civilization program - western philosophy and political thought. The professor I keep in touch with recommended Anton Mesmer.

    After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.


    In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

    When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.

    People bitch about losing their anonymity and then get insulted when someone doesn't recognize them from whatever success they've had.

    I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.

    It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.



    I have had a turtle, a guinea pig, a dog, girlfriends, and many sweet, playful, sleepy, loving, delicious cats. I love the way cats look at me.


    I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.

    A friend - I was living with Matt Damon at the time - went in to audition for To Die For. When he met Gus, he recommended me and my brother. Because the story was about Pam Smart and set in New England, and we knew those kinds of kids and high schools and the whole accent and style.

    But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.

    When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.

    I love it The push and pull, the constant renegotiating of morals, ethics, what to do, how to live... All of us stuck here together trying to sort it all out. It's fun. It can be, anyway.

    The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.

    They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good.

    My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

    I have had many, many cats. We seem to connect well. I had a snake when I was a boy. It was given to me on my birthday.

    You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

    I make out with Christina Ricci... many times. But no real love scenes. I'm dying to.

    I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

    I think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent than people that don't.

    Directors will have a different idea than I have. It will rarely be a perfect match.

    For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

    If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

    My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

    There were many incidents that influenced me over the course of my life. I mean, how does one first learn about human rights It's constantly evolving, and if there was some big-bang-like event, I can't remember what it was.

    Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?

    I love animals, but I love people, and I love people who have all kinds of beliefs.

    Since I left school, I've been working on my music career. I would love to be a musician... I wish I could just sit around and play music for myself, but I can't. I just don't have the skills... the skills to pay the bills.

    I also learned to separate my experience on the set from how I felt about my performance in the movie. Because most of the time I just hate myself.

    I once came out of the hotel, and Brad Pitt was in front of me. There were all these fans out there and he walked out. I knew they were going to yell or something, but then they all just dropped down and died on the ground. Like 400 girls just simultaneously fell on the ground and died.

    I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.


    I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

    People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week.

    I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

    The thing about Interview is that it's very flattering. I guess that's all most magazines are. They take the new, up-and-coming star and make them seem like they possess whatever qualities are popular... regardless of whether they have them or not.


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