I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
BEN STILLERPaul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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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Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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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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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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.
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I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
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I’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
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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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I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary.
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Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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A eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
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