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.
BEN STILLERWhen 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?
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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I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
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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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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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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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I’m just not a naturally cheery person. I’m naturally moody. I know that from people who spend a lot of time with me. People who spend a lot of time with me may not wish to spend a lot more time with me.
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I’d love to travel more. I really look forward to traveling with my kids. I’m just waiting for them to want to travel with me.
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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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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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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Fashion is so over the top.
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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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 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’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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