Stars Quotes

"When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. 

My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good."

Actor Casey Affleck is known to most celebrity-watchers as Ben Affleck's younger brother and sometime co-star. But after a decade of working in the movies, Casey emerged in 2007 as a lead player, seen alongside Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and starring with Ed Harris in his brother's directorial debut, Gone, Baby, Gone (with Amy Ryan). He first appeared with Joaquin Phoenix as an aimless teen in Gus Van Sant's To Die For (1995). He had small but memorable roles in Good Will Hunting (1997) and American Pie (1999), then played sort-of leads in the poorly-received movies Drowning Mona (2000) and Soul Survivors (2001). He gained a wider audience as part of the gang in Steven Soderbergh's series of Ocean's Eleven movies (2001-07), and has since moved into starring roles, including the 2002 artsy Van Sant movie Gerry (which Casey co-wrote with Matt Damon), the Steve Buscemi film Lonesome Jim (2005) and the independent thriller The Killer Inside Me (2010). He began filming Joaquin Phoenix (his brother-in-law) in 2008, just as Phoenix announced his "retirement" as an actor. The resulting documentary film, 2010's I'm Still Here, was described by Affleck as "performance art" rather than hoax.

 "When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something 

and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression."

"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."

 "People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week."

 "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."

 "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."

 "It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up."

 "In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights.

 I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears.

 A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them."

 "If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?"

 "I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. 

But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. 

The whole time I'm really tense."

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

 "I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on,

 who are disabled, aggressive, etc., 

their own space to live out their days."

 "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."