I think the most serious genre is the thing you’re going to get the most out of. If you’re trying to satirise a comedy, it’s hard to do that – it doesn’t really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I’m a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.
BEN STILLERThe cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.
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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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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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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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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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God was showing off when he made you.
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Fashion is so over the top.
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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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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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There’s a sense here in L.A. that everybody’s aware of everybody all the time. It’s funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.
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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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Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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