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.
BEN STILLERI’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.
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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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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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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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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I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that 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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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 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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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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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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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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