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.
BEN STILLERGod was showing off when he made you.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, ‘I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.’
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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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God was showing off when he made you.
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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 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 very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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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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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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I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.
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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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And I was like, “Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I’ll fill 120 hours of my life with something.” So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.
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