Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
BEN STILLERI’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
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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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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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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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 need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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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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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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Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
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I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer’s couch in New York, and he said, “I’ve got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?”
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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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