Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
BEN STILLERIt’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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 don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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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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There’s a sense here in L.A. that everybody’s aware of everybody all the time. It’s funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.
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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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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’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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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 recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.
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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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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 think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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I know that I’m better as an actor when I’m working with a good actor. I think anytime you’re working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.
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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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