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My own parents were touchy-feely.

Ben Stiller

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.
BEN STILLER

Being Good Life Looking More Real
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 think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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Dodgeball Faces Thinking
I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn’t going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.
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Acting Becoming College
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
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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Humorous People Real
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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Actors Insecure Thinking
My own parents were touchy-feely.
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Own Parent Touchy
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
You have to stay in character in between takes.
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Character Stay Take
God was showing off when he made you.
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Faith Keep Made Showing
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 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.
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Book Find Guy Idea Jagger Million Simple
I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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Needs Shining Wind
Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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Anything Milk Nipples
Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
BEN STILLER

After Comedy Force Retirement
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
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
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 have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
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Energy Want Wind
Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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Comedy Own Sensibility
All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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Gorgeous Rumor Trash
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 recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.
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Childhood Home Parent
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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Careers Guy Writing
If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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Dancing Eye Looks
I’m just not a naturally cheery person. I’m naturally moody. I know that from people who spend a lot of time with me. People who spend a lot of time with me may not wish to spend a lot more time with me.
BEN STILLER

May People Wish

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