When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don’t think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.
BEN STILLERI’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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It’s weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I’m expected to be humorous on talk shows.
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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.
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I don’t think know if anything’s going to translate anywhere. You’re making a movie, you hope it’s going to be funny, you can’t think about how it’s going to go over.
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Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn’t be anonymous.
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A eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
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I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.
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Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn’t let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I’ve decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.
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It’s what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I’m about.
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