The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
BEN STILLERVery quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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Fashion is so over the top.
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I wanted to be funny for people who didn’t care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.
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I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people’s expectations of me as a comic actor.
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When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.
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I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn’t going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.
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I’m Jewish, but my mom’s Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I’m still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It’s a process, really.
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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic. I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, ‘I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.’
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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary.
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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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I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
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My parents used to throw great New Year’s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
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There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!
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I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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I’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
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I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.
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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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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’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.
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Whatever talent I had, I’m sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
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