Ben Affleck

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#hollywood #money #politics #money

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. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#actual #actual experience #am #divorce #end

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#another #being #career #differently #direction

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. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#better #burnt #comment #curve #finally

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

— Ben Affleck

#about #being #couches #great #poor

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. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#america #came #entertainment #entertainment world #influential

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. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#bears #cocksure #described #feel #i

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. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#biggest #biggest mistake #clint #clint eastwood #clooney

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. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#anybody #beliefs #comfortable #entitled #everyone

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

— Ben Affleck

#call #dead #ever #first #hotel