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

Ben Stiller

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 don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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Dying Necessarily Public Thinking
I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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Daughter Start Working
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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Funeral Stupid Thinking
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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Actors People Thinking
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
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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Comedy Thinking Translate
Whatever talent I had, I’m sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
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Comedian Directors Parent
All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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Gorgeous Rumor Trash
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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Career Movie Way
I know that I’m better as an actor when I’m working with a good actor. I think anytime you’re working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.
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Actor Knows Thinking
I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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Dodgeball Faces Thinking
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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Character Dark Thinking
You have to stay in character in between takes.
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Character Stay Take
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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Acceptance Appreciation Grateful
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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Drama Expectation People
My parents used to throw great New Year’s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
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New Year Party Years
God was showing off when he made you.
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Faith Keep Made Showing
I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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Character Comedy Endure
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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Humorous People Real
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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Dream Kids Successful
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Creative Test
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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Fashion Funny Silly
The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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Cliche Generic Plot
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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Film Hollywood Use
I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn’t going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.
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Acting Becoming College
I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.
BEN STILLER

Burning Desire Taken

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