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Ben Stiller

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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Beautiful Daughter Mother
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
I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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Comedy Devalue Drama
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.
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Comedian Directors Parent
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
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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People Personality Thinking
Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.
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Car Encourage Sweet Years
I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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Character Comedy Endure
I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.
BEN STILLER

Childhood Home Parent
The big-name stars . . . are always going to be playing what they’ve played before if they want to remain so-called A-list stars. That’s why someone like Johnny Depp is doing more interesting roles not caring about the size of the movie.
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Caring Names Stars
All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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Gorgeous Rumor Trash
I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
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Actors Insecure Thinking
My own parents were touchy-feely.
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Own Parent Touchy
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
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 don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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Dying Necessarily Public Thinking
It’s what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I’m about.
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Wanted Way Writing
I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.
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Giving Thinking Trying
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’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
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Acceptance Appreciation Grateful
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
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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Fashion Funny Silly
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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Actors People Thinking
There’s a sense here in L.A. that everybody’s aware of everybody all the time. It’s funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.
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Including People Want
God was showing off when he made you.
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Faith Keep Made Showing
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
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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Careers Guy Writing

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