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Ben Stiller

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.
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Comedy Genre Movie Satrise Serious Well
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
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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Audition Blessing Parent
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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Bipolar Guy Thinking
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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Character Dark Thinking
I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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Needs Shining Wind
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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Kids Looks Waiting
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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Drama Expectation People
I know that I’m better as an actor when I’m working with a good actor. I think anytime you’re working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.
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Actor Knows Thinking
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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Kind Thinking World
When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic. I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?
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Balance Fun Home
I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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Character Comedy Endure
The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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Cliche Generic Plot
There’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.
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Film Hollywood Use
I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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Country History Together
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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Actors People Thinking

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