Ben Affleck's BIO Oscar win for 'Good Will Hunting' (1997)
August 15, 1972 (Berkeley, California, USA)
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  • [Smith couldn't resist elaborating:] It would be the most fictional role-playing ever. I'm no Affleck, which is bad in the bedroom, but good professionally. It's good not to be Ben Affleck professionally, because then I don't have to explain 'Gigli' ... for the next ten years.
  • 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.
  • I think one of the dangers of great tragedies like this is, once they fall away from the 24-hour news cycle, there's a tendency to think, `Well that's dealt with.
  • It's not something that can be ameliorated with the one telethon we did the month afterward. It's a continuing process.
  • 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 like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
  • In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast in the movie. I got a list of two names: Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck. I was lucky enough to get them both.
  • Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
  • On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.
  • I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
  • [A rep for the event said a reason was not given for the stars' absence (but Garner is due in November) and added,] They're very tight-lipped about their private lives. ... next year there'll be the three of us.
  • 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.
  • Jackson said, laughing. ''You're both up against a deadline.
  • 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.
  • 'm not doing any press tonight.
  • 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.
  • You couldn't breathe. The lights didn't work and the radio transmitters would emit this incredibly high-pitched white noise.
  • 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.
  • I feel horrified and sad and a great deal of empathy and lots of frustration.
  • 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.
  • Would make a superb public candidate for public office in the future.
  • All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
  • 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.
  • It's about what a terrible cost it is for people to have to go to war and what a terrible thing it is.
  • 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.
  • Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.
  • 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.
  • I like that best as I am so hairy.
  • My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
  • 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.
  • There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
  • I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon. It's representative of what I've seen people doing all over the Low Country around here.
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  • Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
  • I think the message is not one about the United States or Japan or the Second World War, right or wrong.
  • You can just start to feel really pregnant. Like you are the hugest person on the face of the planet.
  • 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.
  • [Founded by vocalist Amy Lee and guitarist-songwriter Ben Moody in the late '90s, the band has only gained momentum since its song] Bring Me To Life ... Daredevil.
  • On contract clauses: 'There's all this language where you can't jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.
  • I dyed my hair for photo tests, ... I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
  • I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
  • I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon, ... It's representative of what I've seen people doing all over the Low Country around here.
  • Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
  • If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.