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As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.

Ben Stiller

The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
BEN STILLER

Cliche Generic Plot
Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn’t let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I’ve decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.
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Direction Opportunity Successful
Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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Comedy Own Sensibility
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?”
BEN STILLER

Country Flirting Fun
I’d love to travel more. I really look forward to traveling with my kids. I’m just waiting for them to want to travel with me.
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Kids Looks Waiting
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
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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Wanted Way Writing
As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.
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Dream Kids Successful
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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Comedy Genre Movie Satrise Serious Well
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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Childhood Home Parent
It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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Laugh Laughing Make People
I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary.
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Book Ideas Simple
I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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Country Expert Humor Sense
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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Comedy Meeting Shattered
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
All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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Gorgeous Rumor Trash

As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.

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As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.

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