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.
BEN STILLERMaybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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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I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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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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You’re freaked out that you’re going to be having a child, and once you’re looking after your daughter, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.
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I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people’s expectations of me as a comic actor.
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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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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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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 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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I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.
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Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
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