Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
BEN STILLERPaul 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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And I was like, “Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I’ll fill 120 hours of my life with something.” So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.
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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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Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at 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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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 grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
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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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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 don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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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 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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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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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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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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People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, ‘I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.’
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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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I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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The big-name stars . . . are always going to be playing what they’ve played before if they want to remain so-called A-list stars. That’s why someone like Johnny Depp is doing more interesting roles not caring about the size of the movie.
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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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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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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’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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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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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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