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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.

Ben Stiller

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Creative Test
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.
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Childhood Home Parent
I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
BEN STILLER

Country Expert Humor Sense
I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
BEN STILLER

Actors Insecure Thinking
I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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Country History Together
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.
BEN STILLER

Energy Want Wind
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
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
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
I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
BEN STILLER

Hockey Play Skates
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Meeting Shattered
There’s a sense here in L.A. that everybody’s aware of everybody all the time. It’s funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.
BEN STILLER

Including People Want
I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
BEN STILLER

Character Comedy Endure
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.
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Wanted Way Writing
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?”
BEN STILLER

Country Flirting Fun
I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
BEN STILLER

Daughter Start Working

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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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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