Quotes by Ben Affleck

I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.

— Ben Affleck

Love

Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

I'm human, just like anybody else.

— Ben Affleck

Life

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.

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

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.

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

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.

— Ben Affleck

Happiness

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

— Ben Affleck

Success

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

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

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

— Ben Affleck

Success

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.

— Ben Affleck

Success

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.

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

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

Education

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

— Ben Affleck

Life

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

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.

— Ben Affleck

Wisdom

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

— Ben Affleck

Friendship