It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
BEN STILLERMy own parents were touchy-feely.
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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.
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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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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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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
BEN STILLERI actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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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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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’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
BEN STILLERI’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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It was Mick Jagger’s idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It’s a great book – really stark, not a comedy – about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.
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I don’t think it’s ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.
BEN STILLERI don’t think it’s ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.
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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.
BEN STILLERPaul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.
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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.”
BEN STILLERI don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
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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 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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A eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
BEN STILLERA eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
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