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When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.

Ben Stiller

Fashion is so over the top.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Fashion Over Top
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
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
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.
BEN STILLER

Humorous People Real
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.
BEN STILLER

Book Ideas Simple
I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
BEN STILLER

Character Comedy Endure
The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
BEN STILLER

Cliche Generic Plot
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
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.
BEN STILLER

Desire Genius Overcoming
Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
BEN STILLER

Essence Moisture Wetness
I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
BEN STILLER

Daughter Start Working
I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.
BEN STILLER

Kind Thinking World
A eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
BEN STILLER

Funeral Stupid Thinking
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.
BEN STILLER

Character Dark Thinking
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.
BEN STILLER

Ideas Mom Reality
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
BEN STILLER

Actors People Thinking

When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.

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