When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can’t go much further because ultimately it’s feeding off of somebody else’s creativity.
BEN STILLERI don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don’t think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.
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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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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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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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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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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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God was showing off when he made you.
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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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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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You’re freaked out that you’re going to be having a child, and once you’re looking after your daughter, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.
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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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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’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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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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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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