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 STILLERI 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?”
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.
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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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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.
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Fashion is so over the top.
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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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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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God was showing off when he made you.
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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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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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It’s weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I’m expected to be humorous on talk shows.
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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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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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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 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.
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