I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
BEN STILLERThe cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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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Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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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.
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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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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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Fashion is so over the top.
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I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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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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Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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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 the most serious genre is the thing you’re going to get the most out of. If you’re trying to satirise a comedy, it’s hard to do that – it doesn’t really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I’m a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.
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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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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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There’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.
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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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