Casey Affleck Quotes

People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any.

So I think there's a lot of people who are really interested to see how good I really am, because they know I'm good, but they're not really sure how good. They want to see that, and there's definitely interest in that, but because of some other people's shortsightedness, maybe it never really happens.

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily.

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.

I knew no matter how good I did, no matter everything that I pushed for, there's always gonna be some type of doubt. Some people want to put limitations on what I can do.

The hardest thing to have is success, because it seems to tell people what you are. But it doesn't.

From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren't just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.

I have cleared the eyeball test and still haven't gotten my just due. That drives me to become more and more successful because of the lack of everything they have been giving me.

Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.

I know that I have the potential. And the opportunities. But I don't say: "I want to win the Australian Open in 2018." It doesn't work that way.

The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.

Some people don't take me seriously, so I had to work harder.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?