I started as a child, in this PBS series ‘Voyage of the Mimi,’ which led to driving down to New York for ‘Afterschool Special’ auditions, which led to moving to Los Angeles. I wanted to be an actor. But in L.A., I got into film technology, and I was building cheap editing systems and would edit my friend’s acting reels. Ben Affleck Read Quote
You can say what you want about me. You can yell at me with a video camera and be TMZ. You can follow me around and take pictures all you want. I don’t care. Ben Affleck Read Quote
It’s wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money. Ben Affleck Read Quote
My kids aren’t celebrities. They never made that bargain. We were offered a lot of money to sell pictures of our kids when they were born. You’ll notice there aren’t any. I make no judgment about people who decide differently; a lot of them give the money to charity. For me, it was a matter of principle. Ben Affleck Read Quote
I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn’t they? It’s great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, ‘I’m just gonna go to Hollywood!’ is that it seems unrealistic. Ben Affleck Read Quote
I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. 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 Read Quote
When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn’t like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions. Ben Affleck Read Quote
I didn’t do anything for two years but work on ‘Gone Baby Gone,’ and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn’t happen. Ben Affleck Read Quote
I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did. Ben Affleck Read Quote
