I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
BEN STILLERI don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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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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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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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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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I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.
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Fashion is so over the top.
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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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I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary.
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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 actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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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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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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