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My own parents were touchy-feely.

Ben Stiller

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
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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Funeral Stupid Thinking
My own parents were touchy-feely.
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Own Parent Touchy
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
God was showing off when he made you.
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Faith Keep Made Showing
I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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Dodgeball Faces Thinking
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
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Comedy Creative Test
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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Fashion Funny Silly
The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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Cliche Generic Plot
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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Career Movie Way
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
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 have not been an easygoing guy. I think it’s called bipolar manic depression. I’ve got a rich history of that in my family.
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Bipolar Guy Thinking
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
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
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

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