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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

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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Careers Guy Writing
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.
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Humorous People Real
Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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Anything Milk Nipples
My parents used to throw great New Year’s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
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New Year Party Years
Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
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Essence Moisture Wetness
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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Actors People Thinking
I don’t think it’s ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.
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Character Dark Thinking
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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Actors Insecure Thinking
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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People Sick Tired
I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer’s couch in New York, and he said, “I’ve got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?”
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Country Flirting Fun
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?
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Balance Fun Home
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.
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Desire Genius Overcoming
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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Childhood Fantasy People
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
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Comedy Creative Test
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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Comedy Meeting Shattered
I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.
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Kind Thinking World

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.

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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.

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