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 STILLERI don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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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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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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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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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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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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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.
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I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.
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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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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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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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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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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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