- Nominated for Best On-Screen Team at MTV Movie Awards for OCEAN'S ELEVEN (2001)
- Proposed to his girlfriend Summer Phoenix, 25, in New York over the Christmas holidays with a platinum and diamond ring of his own design. (January 16, 2004)
- In his first film, CHASING AMY, Affleck was little more than a blip on the screen, but in the second, Van Sant's GOOD WILL HUNTING, he had a decidedly more substantial part as one of Matt Damon's South Boston homeboys.
- The younger brother of actor Ben Affleck, Casey spent the last few years of the 1990s working his way out of his brother's muscular shadow.
- After working in TO DIE FOR (1995), he brought director Gus Van Sant a script by his brother Ben and Ben's friend Matt. It became GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997).
- Is of Scottish-Irish descent.
- In the March issue of Nylon Magazine, he admits to being ashamed of two movies in his career: DROWNING MONA (2000) and SOUL SURVIVORS (2001)
Quotes- "Being panicked makes me focused in a way."
- "Partying for me was trying to steal beer from a liquor store in high school."
- On Ben Affleck on their teendays: "He always stole all my clothes and socks, and that kind of left me with a sense of betrayal."
- "I'm really tough on the inside. I have a cold, cold heart but I act like a really, really sweet guy. [Laughs.] For real, I'm pretty sweet and everybody knows it. I don't put up much of an act. When I do, it's embarrassing because everybody's on to me."
- Asked who would he like to kiss (Co-star) someday: "Claire Danes. She's really a super talent and a nice, sweet girl. Every performance blows me away, and she's so good she makes everyone around her good."
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