I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
BEN STILLERThe cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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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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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.
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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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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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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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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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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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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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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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 think it’s ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.
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