Ben Affleck Admits He Made Bad Film Choices in Order to be Rich and Famous

Ben Affleck may be getting rave reviews for his performance in "Hollywoodland", but admits he found acting torturous after a string of flops.

Ben said: "I have a doubt about my own worth, and a lot of times, I experience conflict about what is the social merit of doing this. But for me, acting has been really torturous. It feels like a lot of failure and very little success, and it is hard to divorce it from what is really honest and true. It has only been good when I have been able to put away my own vanity, my own self-consciousness, my own sense of how each piece of behavior that I am engaging in is going to be interpreted by somebody."

Affleck reveals that he made bad decisions in his role selection because he wanted to be rich and famous.

He said: "Part of being an actor is the choices you make. Choices that I have made, a lot of them poorly!

"I made my choices for a combination of reasons - wanting to be successful, wanting people to like me, wanting to make money - some of them good.

"But all decisions depend on a lot of things that are unknown."