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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.

Ben Stiller

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.
BEN STILLER

Including People Want
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.
BEN STILLER

Fashion Funny Silly
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.
BEN STILLER

Audition Blessing Parent
When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic. I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?
BEN STILLER

Balance Fun Home
I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
BEN STILLER

Childhood Fantasy People
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.
BEN STILLER

Beautiful Daughter Mother
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.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Thinking Translate
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.
BEN STILLER

Anything Disaster Flirting Hour Something
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.
BEN STILLER

Childhood Home Parent
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
BEN STILLER

Games Hurt Play
I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
BEN STILLER

Character Comedy Endure
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.
BEN STILLER

Countrymen Depressed Fellow People
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.
BEN STILLER

Acting Becoming College
Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Own Sensibility
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
BEN STILLER

Career Movie Way
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.
BEN STILLER

Acceptance Appreciation Grateful

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