I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
BEN STILLERI don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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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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 studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
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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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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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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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Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
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I’m Jewish, but my mom’s Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I’m still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It’s a process, really.
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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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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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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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There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!
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God was showing off when he made you.
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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