Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
BEN STILLERIt’s what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I’m about.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.
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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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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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I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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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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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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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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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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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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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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I’d love to travel more. I really look forward to traveling with my kids. I’m just waiting for them to want to travel with me.
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I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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