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.
BEN STILLERMoisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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And I was like, “Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I’ll fill 120 hours of my life with something.” So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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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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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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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Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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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.
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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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My parents used to throw great New Year’s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
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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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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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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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