The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
BEN STILLERAll those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
-
-
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.
BEN STILLER -
There’s a sense here in L.A. that everybody’s aware of everybody all the time. It’s funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.
BEN STILLER -
It’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.
BEN STILLER -
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 -
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
BEN STILLER -
Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn’t let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I’ve decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.
BEN STILLER -
God was showing off when he made you.
BEN STILLER -
It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn’t be anonymous.
BEN STILLER -
It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
BEN STILLER -
I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
BEN STILLER -
I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.
BEN STILLER -
Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
BEN STILLER -
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 -
If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
BEN STILLER -
I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it’s called bipolar manic depression. I’ve got a rich history of that in my family.
BEN STILLER

![Ben Stiller Quote - All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/all-those-rumors-about-her-being-underweight-are-t.jpg)
![Ben Stiller Quote - All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/grey-all-those-rumors-about-her-being-underwe.jpg)
![Ben Stiller Quote - All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/blue-all-those-rumors-about-her-being-underwe.jpg)
![Ben Stiller Quote - All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/red-all-those-rumors-about-her-being-underwe.jpg)
![Ben Stiller Quote - All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/brown-all-those-rumors-about-her-being-underwe.jpg)
![Ben Stiller Quote - All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/white-all-those-rumors-about-her-being-underwe.jpg)

