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My own parents were touchy-feely.

Ben Stiller

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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Ideas Mom Reality
Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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Comedy Own Sensibility
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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Comedy Thinking Translate
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
You have to stay in character in between takes.
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Character Stay Take
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.
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Actor Knows Thinking
And I was like, “Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I’ll fill 120 hours of my life with something.” So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.
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Anything Disaster Flirting Hour Something
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
There’s a sense here in L.A. that everybody’s aware of everybody all the time. It’s funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.
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Including People Want
I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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Daughter Start Working
I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.
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Burning Desire Taken
My own parents were touchy-feely.
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Own Parent Touchy
Whatever talent I had, I’m sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
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Comedian Directors Parent
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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Acceptance Appreciation Grateful
The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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Cliche Generic Plot
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

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