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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.

Ben Stiller

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.
BEN STILLER

Acting Becoming College
All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
BEN STILLER

Gorgeous Rumor Trash
I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
BEN STILLER

Needs Shining Wind
I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.
BEN STILLER

Countrymen Depressed Fellow People
I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Devalue Drama
I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
BEN STILLER

Childhood Fantasy People
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
BEN STILLER

Games Hurt Play
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can’t go much further because ultimately it’s feeding off of somebody else’s creativity.
BEN STILLER

Creativity Grow Spinal Tap Up
Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
BEN STILLER

After Comedy Force Retirement
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
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.
BEN STILLER

Including People Want
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
BEN STILLER

Actors People Thinking
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.’
BEN STILLER

People Personality Thinking
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
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.
BEN STILLER

Acceptance Appreciation Grateful
I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
BEN STILLER

Energy Want Wind

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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