I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
BEN STILLERWords can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
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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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It’s weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I’m expected to be humorous on talk shows.
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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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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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God was showing off when he made you.
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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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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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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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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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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 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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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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Fashion is so over the top.
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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.
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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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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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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 actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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I’m just not a naturally cheery person. I’m naturally moody. I know that from people who spend a lot of time with me. People who spend a lot of time with me may not wish to spend a lot more time with me.
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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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A eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
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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 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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