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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

Ben Stiller

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

Cliche Generic Plot
I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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Hockey Play Skates
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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Beautiful Daughter Mother
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.
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Comedy Genre Movie Satrise Serious Well
It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn’t be anonymous.
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Audition Blessing Parent
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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Comedy Meeting Shattered
And I was like, “Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I’ll fill 120 hours of my life with something.” So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.
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Anything Disaster Flirting Hour Something
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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Games Hurt Play
If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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Dancing Eye Looks
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Creative Test
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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Book Find Guy Idea Jagger Million Simple
I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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Dying Necessarily Public Thinking
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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Direction Opportunity Successful
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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Kids Thinking Together
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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Countrymen Depressed Fellow People
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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Energy Want Wind

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