Casey Affleck
I've run into people who say, 'I know what you're like: You're a Boston guy.' That's so weird. This person who doesn't know anything about me thinks they know a lot because of the city I grew up in, which, to me, is a meaningless label. There are all kinds of people from Boston.
I'm tired of answering questions about myself.
I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there. If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.
In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman. I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.
I was really short in high school. I was stuck on the bench in the baseball team, so I just thought I'd try out theater, and that was the last time I did sports.
Sometimes you read something, and there's a part of you that remains in an analytical actor place. Am I going to do this movie? Is this a good part for me? Is it not? Can I bring something to this?
Sometimes I pick parts because I think, 'OK, it scares me,' and that's an indication it's going to be a good movie for me to do. Sometimes that leaves me in a terrible... Well, it doesn't always pan out, you know?
I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to just show up at someone's house and put a little row of bricks around their garden. You want to build a building.
One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and when I was in school, I loved to read old film criticism.
When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'Collection: Animal
I'd like to never be able to get pigeonholed, which is difficult to do.Collection: Able
Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.Collection: Jobs
I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.Collection: New York
A good leader needs to know how to follow.Collection: Leader
Sometimes I feel like every movie I make could be the last. I know that's not really the case, but if I think about it that way and I'm very careful, then maybe I can build a career, movie by movie, that I'm happy with.Collection: Thinking
Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.Collection: Book
Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.Collection: Used
My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.Collection: Fool
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.Collection: Teacher
But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.Collection: Kissing
I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem.Collection: Thinking
In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.Collection: New York
Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.Collection: Pigs
All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.Collection: Mean
You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.Collection: Different
A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.Collection: Book
When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.Collection: Math
I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.Collection: New York
When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad.Collection: Eggs
Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."Collection: People
If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.Collection: People
I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.Collection: Book
I like to just keep the land within sight. Nowadays they can tell you if there's a storm three days out. So it's not much of a concern. But I've never been a big boat person. I don't spend a lot of time at sea.Collection: Land
Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, "I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done this."Collection: Art
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.Collection: Firsts