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I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people’s expectations of me as a comic actor.

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

Burning Desire Taken
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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Film Hollywood Use
I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
BEN STILLER

Dodgeball Faces Thinking
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.
BEN STILLER

Actor Knows 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 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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Energy Want Wind
Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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Blood Dodgeball Underdog
I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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Comedy Devalue Drama
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.
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Audition Blessing Parent
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
I wanted to be funny for people who didn’t care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.
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Fashion Funny Silly
Fashion is so over the top.
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Comedy Fashion Over Top
I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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Character Comedy Endure
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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Career Movie Way
I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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Country Expert Humor Sense
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

Country Fun Growing

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