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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Ben Stiller

I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
BEN STILLER

Dying Necessarily Public Thinking
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.
BEN STILLER

Actor Knows Thinking
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
BEN STILLER

Career Movie Way
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
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
Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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Blood Dodgeball Underdog
You have to stay in character in between takes.
BEN STILLER

Character Stay Take
I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
BEN STILLER

Character Comedy Endure
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.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Genre Movie Satrise Serious Well
There’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.
BEN STILLER

Film Hollywood Use
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!
BEN STILLER

People Sick Tired
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
The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
BEN STILLER

Cliche Generic Plot
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can’t go much further because ultimately it’s feeding off of somebody else’s creativity.
BEN STILLER

Creativity Grow Spinal Tap Up
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 STILLER

Kids Looks Waiting
All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
BEN STILLER

Gorgeous Rumor Trash

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