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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.

Ben Stiller

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.
BEN STILLER

Desire Genius Overcoming
I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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Hockey Play Skates
I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
BEN STILLER

Actors Insecure Thinking
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.
BEN STILLER

Book Find Guy Idea Jagger Million Simple
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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Funeral Stupid Thinking
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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Country Fun Growing
I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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Country Expert Humor Sense
I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary.
BEN STILLER

Book Ideas Simple
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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People Sick Tired
I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
BEN STILLER

Daughter Start Working
Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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Blood Dodgeball Underdog
I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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Needs Shining Wind
Whatever talent I had, I’m sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
BEN STILLER

Comedian Directors Parent
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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Childhood Fantasy People
All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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Gorgeous Rumor Trash
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.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Thinking Translate

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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