Hollywood actor Ben Affleck went back to school on Friday to offer advice to a class of American high school graduates.
The 34-year-old action star attended the Falls Church High School in Washington, DC at the request of 19-year-old Joe Kindregan – who suffers from the rare disease ataxia-telangiectasia.
Kindregan met Affleck through the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Affleck told the class, “I haven’t been in space, I’m not a politician, I’m not a superhero, I’m not even a gangster.
“I’ve only pretended to be all of those – in some cases just barely.
“What others say about you means nothing. What you say about you means everything. Your job is to make other people see you as you are.”
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BEN AFFLECK was desperate to quit smoking after playing a chain-smoking bail bondsman in the new film SMOKIN’ ACES.
The 34-year-old was a regular smoker and had to increase his habit dramatically while making the movie.
He explains, “The whole week that I shot, I smoked, like, five packs a day.
“By the time the movie was over, I was so sick of smoking, I just didn’t want to do it anymore, and I quit.
“I have this celluloid record of the last time I smoked!”
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner tied the knot Wednesday and are expecting their first child.
Publicists for Affleck, 32, and Garner, 33, have confirmed the pregnancy and representatives for the actors confirmed the wedding.
The couple got married at the Parrot Cay resort in the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos. The National Enquirer reportedly has pictures of the sunset wedding where Garner’s “Alias” co-star, Victor Garber, was a guest.
Us Weekly says that while Garner was shooting the movie “Catch and Release” in Vancouver last Friday, Affleck had a bachelor party in their Los Angeles home.
The couple met while shooting the superhero flick “Daredevil” but didn’t start dating until last year when they made their relationship public at Fenway Park when they were watching Affleck’s favourite team, the Boston Red Sox, win the World Series.
That was the same year Affleck and Jennifer Lopez broke off their highly publicized engagement (in January). In March, Garner divorced actor Scott Foley after three and a half years of marriage.
