Ben Affleck movie quotes

“- Joe Stafford: You really believe your little story's gonna make a difference when there's a gun to our heads?
- Tony Mendez: I think my story's the only thing between you and a gun to your head.”
Scoot McNairy - Joe Stafford
Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez

“Violence doesn't discriminate. It hits all of us... the rich, the poor, the healthy, the sick. It comes as cold and bracing as a winter breeze off the Hudson. Until it sinks into your bones... leaving you with a chill you can't shake.”
Ben Affleck - Matt Murdock

“- Seth: You know you shouldn't be looking at me like that, it could be sexual harrassment.
- Buddy Amaral: I wasn't looking. Besides, I'm not gay!
- Seth: Yeah, but I am.”
Johnny Galecki - Seth
Ben Affleck - Buddy Amaral

“- Bobby: I have to look successful! I can't just be another asshole with a resume!
- Maggie: You are just another asshole with a resume!”
Ben Affleck - Bobby Walker
Rosemarie Dewitt - Maggie

“People who get married are not to be trusted. You know why? Because if you were legitimately happy, honestly you wouldn't feel the need to make a big show out of it. You wouldn't have to broadcast it. They do it because they're insecure and because they think that getting married is what they're supposed to be doing now. And so they're lying to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ben Affleck - Neil

“- Doug MacRay: We're fucked if we see a helicopter, we're fucked if we see SWAT. We see a cruiser, stop, take out the engine blocks, keep movin'. No one needs to get hurt.
- James Coughlin: Yeah, these guards like to test you, though. They wanna get hurt for ten dollars an hour, don't get in the way.”
Ben Affleck - Doug MacRay
Jeremy Renner - James Coughlin

“I haven't known you that long, but I think there may be something wrong with you.”
Ben Affleck - Ben Holmes

“- Ivan Block: You'll find another boyfriend when we land at the next stop.
- Rebecca Shafran: Younger and dumber next time.
- Ivan Block: Dumber won't be easy.”
Ben Affleck - Ivan Block
Gemma Arterton - Rebecca Shafran

“No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done.”
Ben Affleck - Doug MacRay

Basically, this place is to crocodiles what "Goldman Sachs" is to pricks with skinny ties.
Ben Affleck - Ivan Block

“- Sarah Lewis: I don't deserve heaven.
- Ben Holmes: Oh Sarah, you deserve so much more than you think you do.”
Sandra Bullock - Sarah Lewis
Ben Affleck - Ben Holmes

“- Doug MacRay: I need your help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're gonna hurt some people.
- James Coughlin: Whose car are we gonna take?”
Ben Affleck - Doug MacRay
Jeremy Renner - James Coughlin

“That little voice in the back of your head right now, it's not conscience, it's fear.”
Ben Affleck - Ivan Block

“- Tom Valco: I think your mom's starting to like your grandfather hitting on her.
- Drew Latham: There's a sentence you don't often hear on Christmas Eve.”
James Gandolfini - Tom Valco
Ben Affleck - Drew Latham

“We think everybody knows Hollywood people. And everybody knows they'd shoot in Stalingrad with Pol Pot directing if it would sell tickets.”
Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez

“This is your job. You want a clear conscience, go start a charity.”
Ben Affleck - Ivan Block

“- John Chambers: Target audience will hate it.
- Tony Mendez: Who's the target audience?
- John Chambers: People with eyes.”
John Goodman - John Chambers
Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez

“There is no such thing as a no sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made.”
Ben Affleck - Jim Young

“Convincing a town to approve something that's already in their best interest, that's just delayed common sense!”
Ben Affleck - Ollie Trinke

“- Gertie Trinke: Thank you, Daddy.
- Ollie Trinke: Anything for you. You know why? 'Cause you're the only thing I was ever really good at.”
Raquel Castro - Gertie Trinke
Ben Affleck - Ollie Trinke

“- Bartleby: You know, maybe you're wrong about this slaughter thing. How can you even be sure what incurs the Lord's wrath these days? Times change. I remember when eating meat on a Friday was supposed to be a Hell-worthy trespass.
- Loki: The major sins never change. Besides, you know, I can spot a commandment-breaker from, like, a mile away.”
Ben Affleck - Bartleby
Matt Damon - Loki

“The only way this works is if you believe that you're these people so much that you dream like them.”
Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez

“Folks, my firm's done a tremendous amount of marketing research and we've discovered two critical things; one: most Americans feel that Christmas is a time for family. Two: most Americans feel that in order to stand being around their family, for even one or two days, they need to swill as much alcohol as humanly possible.”
Ben Affleck - Drew Latham

“Rule one! Never put a car thief behind the wheel!”
Ben Affleck - Rudy Duncan

“- Claire Keesey: So what do you do for work?
- Doug MacRay: Boston Sanding Gravel, I break rocks. Punch the ticket at the end of the day, slide down the back of a Brontosaurus like Fred Flintstone, call it a night.”
Rebecca Hall - Claire Keesey
Ben Affleck - Doug MacRay