I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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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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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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.
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There’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.
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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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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.
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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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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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Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.
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I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
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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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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 grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
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You’re freaked out that you’re going to be having a child, and once you’re looking after your daughter, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.
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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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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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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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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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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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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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