Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck
Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt, better known as Ben Affleck, is an American actor and filmmaker. He began his career as a child actor, starring in the PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi. He later appeared in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confusedand various Kevin Smith films including Chasing Amyand Dogma. Affleck gained fame when he and childhood friend Matt Damon won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting. He then starred in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 August 1972
CityBerkeley, CA
CountryUnited States of America
No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
I like to shoot until we have a relaxed environment on the set, and I try to schedule that.
(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
It's important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life,
I'm trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.
All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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.
Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex.
I was glad I did, except when I was wandering around in my real life with this big red Afro. I looked like Ronald McDonald.
I dyed my hair for photo tests, ... I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained.
One of the ways that I could contribute was to shill some memorabilia, and the other was to talk to you and try to get people to pay attention to this auction.
You can just start to feel really pregnant. Like you are the hugest person on the face of the planet,