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I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

Ben Stiller

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
BEN STILLER

Actors People Thinking
I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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Daughter Start Working
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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People Personality Thinking
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 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
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.
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Desire Genius Overcoming
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 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’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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Kids Looks Waiting
The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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Cliche Generic Plot
Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
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Essence Moisture Wetness
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.
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Fashion Funny Silly
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
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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Games Hurt Play
Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn’t let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I’ve decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.
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Direction Opportunity Successful
I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
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Actors Insecure Thinking

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