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 STILLERIf you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
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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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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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I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
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Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it’s called bipolar manic depression. I’ve got a rich history of that in my family.
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I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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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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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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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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Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.
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When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don’t think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.
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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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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 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.
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.
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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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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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Fashion is so over the top.
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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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