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Background[]

Filmography[]

Trivia[]

  • Older brother of actor Casey Affleck.
  • Owns vintage Ms. Pac-Man and Millipede video-arcade games.
  • He was accidentally knocked unconscious by football player Dana Stubblefield during the filming of Reindeer Games (2000).
  • Auditioned for Corey Haim's part in License to Drive (1988).
  • Ranked #77 in Premiere's 2002 annual Power 100 List.
  • Named People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" (2002)
  • Ranked #41 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List.
  • When he was dating Jennifer Lopez, hated the paparazzi referring to them as "Bennifer."
  • His father was at one time a janitor at Harvard University, the inspiration for Will Hunting's job at MIT in Good Will Hunting (1997).
  • Has a fear of flying.
  • Turned down the part of Bobby Mercer in Four Brothers (2005), as he found the script to be "ultra-violent". The part eventually went to Mark Wahlberg.
  • Was considered for the role of Billy Loomis in Scream (1996).
  • Majored in Middle Eastern affairs in college.
  • As a teenager, he lived in Mexico where he learned to speak Spanish.
  • At forty years old, he is the oldest actor to be cast in the role of Batman.
  • He is the tallest actor to play Batman and is in fact an inch and half taller than the version seen in the comics who stands at six-feet two inches tall.
  • Began an intense two-hour a day workout regime the day after he was cast as Batman.
  • In his film Jersey Girl (2004), Affleck refers to his transportation as "The Batmobile."
  • Received a lifetime ban from playing blackjack at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Casino due to his card counting skills.

Quotes[]

  • I feel like fame is wasted on me.
  • Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
  • 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.
  • You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.
  • 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.
  • 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 didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
  • 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.
  • Having a family makes things you have that much richer. It's much nicer to share it with the people you love.
  • I went to rehab when I was 29 and partying too much and not having a lot of boundaries and to clear my head and try to get some idea of who I wanted to be, It was more a 'let me get myself straight, before it became a rite of passage.
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