It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
BEN STILLERI’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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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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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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Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
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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 need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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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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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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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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God was showing off when he made you.
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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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.
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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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A eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
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I don’t think it’s ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.
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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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