I’m human, just like anybody else.

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.

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You’re embarrassed by your parents, and you’re trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

I’m not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I’ve been able to continue one with Gwyneth that’s really valuable.

I’m sure I can make a movie that doesn’t feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that’s my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the...

I like that best as I am so hairy

I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider – very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values...

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I...

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn’t want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn’t think I would stop acting,...

He used to be, actually a very successful actor. … One of the things that’s encouraging about that is it represents citizen politicians, people that aren’t career politicians.

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.

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we’ll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve...

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.

When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I’m doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it’s so surreal to feel...

Yes, I’m going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

You can just start to feel really pregnant. Like you are the hugest person on the face of the planet,

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.

People of similar political persuasions tend to flock together.

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...

I think the message is not one about the United States or Japan or the Second World War, right or wrong,

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.

I’m much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they’re dating or what clothes they’re wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

I kinda see my current position like this: ‘Here’s your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before Chuck Woolery rings the bell.’

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.

I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.

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...

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

There’s a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It’s an ugly world.

I kinda see my current position like this: Here’s your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before ‘Chuck Woolery’ rings the bell.

It’s about what a terrible cost it is for people to have to go to war and what a terrible thing it is.

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

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It’s hard...

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.

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.

There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,

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

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn’t getting esteem for anything I did.

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...

would make a superb public candidate for public office in the future.

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.

It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of ’98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And...

[The hard times aren’t over, Affleck cautioned.] Ultimately it’s hard (to make a movie), especially with a low budget, … He’s not going to see his wife and kid or be able to sleep.

The first ‘Star Wars’ movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything – it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a...

You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

You [Maria Shriver] are so wonderful. You are so beautiful. I have wanted to meet you for the longest time. I’m hitting on you because you’re husband is on the other side of the room.

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.

I’m a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

I’ve consciously taken on material that’s a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. ‘The Town,’ I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger...