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- culture
- February 21, 2020
Ben Affleck reveals a question for his future self
Affleck said in his sobriety he enjoys routine, time with kids and friends.
The question Affleck said he would ask himself now would be \"What do you want?\"
\"The next -- maybe I got 40 more years -- what do you want that to look like?\" he posited.
Affleck is well-read, funny, mischievous and always ready to make fun of himself, but the single Hollywood heartthrob said he's not interested in dating.
\"I am not dating,\" he told Sawyer with a laugh. \"I'm not on Tinder, Grindr -- Bumble, Humble -- I am not on any of them -- I know people who are on them. They have a fun time. And that's -- not me.\"
\"I don't really see the virtue in, like, idle relationships,\" he explained. \"[You] see a bunch of people and date a bunch of people. And that -- that doesn't so much interest me.\"
\"I'm enormously lucky. I have three of the most fabulous children you'll ever see,\" he said. \"I love them to death. They're my joy. They're my life.\"
\"I have a career that I really like and I'm proud of,\" Affleck continued. \"I would love to have -- a relationship that was deeply meaningful and one to which I could be deeply committed.\"
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