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.
BEN STILLERA eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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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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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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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 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 this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.
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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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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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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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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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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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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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Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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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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God was showing off when he made you.
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