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.
BEN STILLERIt’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.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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 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’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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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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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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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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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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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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You’re freaked out that you’re going to be having a child, and once you’re looking after your daughter, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.
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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.
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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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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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Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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