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When 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?

Ben Stiller

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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Film Hollywood Use
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.
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Countrymen Depressed Fellow People
God was showing off when he made you.
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Faith Keep Made Showing
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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Humorous People Real
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.
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Energy Want Wind
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.
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Drama Expectation People
When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.
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Country Fun Growing
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
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Comedy Creative Test
The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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Cliche Generic Plot
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
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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Games Hurt Play
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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Country Flirting Fun
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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Career Movie Way
Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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Blood Dodgeball Underdog
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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Comedy Thinking Translate
Fashion is so over the top.
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Comedy Fashion Over Top

When 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?

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When 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?

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