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 STILLERI studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
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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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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’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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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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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
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I’m Jewish, but my mom’s Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I’m still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It’s a process, really.
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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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I don’t think know if anything’s going to translate anywhere. You’re making a movie, you hope it’s going to be funny, you can’t think about how it’s going to go over.
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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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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’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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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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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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