I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
BEN STILLERI’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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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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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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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I’d love to travel more. I really look forward to traveling with my kids. I’m just waiting for them to want to travel with me.
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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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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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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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When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can’t go much further because ultimately it’s feeding off of somebody else’s creativity.
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Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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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 love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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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Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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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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