I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
BEN STILLERWhen 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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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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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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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’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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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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I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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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’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
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I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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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.
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The big-name stars . . . are always going to be playing what they’ve played before if they want to remain so-called A-list stars. That’s why someone like Johnny Depp is doing more interesting roles not caring about the size of the movie.
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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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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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