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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.

Ben Stiller

I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
BEN STILLER

Country Expert Humor Sense
Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Own Sensibility
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.
BEN STILLER

Humorous People Real
You have to stay in character in between takes.
BEN STILLER

Character Stay Take
Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
BEN STILLER

Blood Dodgeball Underdog
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.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Thinking Translate
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Meeting Shattered
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.
BEN STILLER

Being Good Life Looking More Real
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.
BEN STILLER

Drama Expectation People
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.
BEN STILLER

Wanted Way Writing
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.
BEN STILLER

Fashion Funny Silly
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.
BEN STILLER

Childhood Home Parent
Paul 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.
BEN STILLER

Car Encourage Sweet Years
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.
BEN STILLER

Book Find Guy Idea Jagger Million Simple
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
BEN STILLER

Games Hurt Play
I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
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Actors Insecure Thinking

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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