It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn’t be anonymous.
BEN STILLERFashion is so over the top.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
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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 know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
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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 think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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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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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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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.
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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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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 grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
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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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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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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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