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.
BEN STILLERPeople like to define you through what they’ve seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, ‘I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.’
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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You’re freaked out that you’re going to be having a child, and once you’re looking after your daughter, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.
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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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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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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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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Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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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’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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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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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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The big-name stars . . . are always going to be playing what they’ve played before if they want to remain so-called A-list stars. That’s why someone like Johnny Depp is doing more interesting roles not caring about the size of the movie.
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