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!
BEN STILLERThe cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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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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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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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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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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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 think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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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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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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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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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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