It was Mick Jagger’s idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It’s a great book – really stark, not a comedy – about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.
BEN STILLERMy own parents were touchy-feely.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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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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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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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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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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 don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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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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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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People 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.’
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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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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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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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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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Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
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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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