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.
BEN STILLERI know that I’m better as an actor when I’m working with a good actor. I think anytime you’re working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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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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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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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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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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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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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 studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
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You’re freaked out that you’re going to be having a child, and once you’re looking after your daughter, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.
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I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
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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 was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer’s couch in New York, and he said, “I’ve got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?”
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I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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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.
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Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it’s called bipolar manic depression. I’ve got a rich history of that in my family.
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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 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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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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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God was showing off when he made you.
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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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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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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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