I’m Jewish, but my mom’s Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I’m still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It’s a process, really.
BEN STILLERNobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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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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 don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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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 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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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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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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 don’t think know if anything’s going to translate anywhere. You’re making a movie, you hope it’s going to be funny, you can’t think about how it’s going to go over.
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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic. I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?
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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 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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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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It was Mick Jagger’s idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It’s a great book – really stark, not a comedy – about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.
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As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.
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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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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 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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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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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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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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