When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic. I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?
BEN STILLERI 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.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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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 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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Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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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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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
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I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
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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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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.
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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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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 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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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.
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