Casey Affleck Quotes

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

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.'

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

I'm tired of answering questions about myself.

I'd like to never be able to get pigeonholed, which is difficult to do.

Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.

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.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

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.

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.

I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

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.

But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.

Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?

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.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.