I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
BEN STILLERI studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
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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 think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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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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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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God was showing off when he made you.
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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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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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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 studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
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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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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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