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 STILLEROh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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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There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!
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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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I think the most serious genre is the thing you’re going to get the most out of. If you’re trying to satirise a comedy, it’s hard to do that – it doesn’t really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I’m a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.
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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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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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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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I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
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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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Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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.
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I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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