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.
BEN STILLERVery quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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I know that I’m better as an actor when I’m working with a good actor. I think anytime you’re working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.
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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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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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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 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 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’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can’t go much further because ultimately it’s feeding off of somebody else’s creativity.
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I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
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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 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.
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I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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