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I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

Ben Stiller

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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Career Movie Way
I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer’s couch in New York, and he said, “I’ve got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?”
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Country Flirting Fun
I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
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Cruise Running Thinking
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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Drama Expectation People
I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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Dodgeball Faces Thinking
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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Direction Opportunity Successful
Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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Anything Milk Nipples
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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People Sick Tired
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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Dream Kids Successful
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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Burning Desire Taken
I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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Country History Together
I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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Needs Shining Wind
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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Careers Guy Writing
I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.
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Countrymen Depressed Fellow People
I’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
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Acceptance Appreciation Grateful
Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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After Comedy Force Retirement

I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

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