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 STILLERI’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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 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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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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I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
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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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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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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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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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Whatever talent I had, I’m sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
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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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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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 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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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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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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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 don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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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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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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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’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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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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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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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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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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