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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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