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My own parents were touchy-feely.

Ben Stiller

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
The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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Cliche Generic Plot
I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people’s expectations of me as a comic actor.
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Drama Expectation People
I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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Needs Shining Wind
I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
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Being Good Life Looking More Real
You have to stay in character in between takes.
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Character Stay Take
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can’t go much further because ultimately it’s feeding off of somebody else’s creativity.
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Creativity Grow Spinal Tap Up
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
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
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 enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
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Comedy Creative Test
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
I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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Character Comedy Endure
I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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Dying Necessarily Public Thinking
I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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Comedy Devalue Drama

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