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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.

Ben Stiller

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
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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Careers Guy Writing
I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
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Cruise Running Thinking
I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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Daughter Start Working
Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
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Essence Moisture Wetness
I’m Jewish, but my mom’s Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I’m still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It’s a process, really.
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Ideas Mom Reality
My own parents were touchy-feely.
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Own Parent Touchy
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
God was showing off when he made you.
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Faith Keep Made Showing
Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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After Comedy Force Retirement
I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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Dodgeball Faces Thinking
I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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Country Expert Humor Sense
If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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Dancing Eye Looks
It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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Laugh Laughing Make People
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 think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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Dying Necessarily Public Thinking

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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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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