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

Ben Stiller

I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
BEN STILLER

Character Comedy Endure
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.
BEN STILLER

Fashion Funny Silly
As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.
BEN STILLER

Dream Kids Successful
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.
BEN STILLER

Beautiful Daughter Mother
God was showing off when he made you.
BEN STILLER

Faith Keep Made Showing
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 STILLER

Creativity Grow Spinal Tap Up
I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
BEN STILLER

Country Expert Humor Sense
All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
BEN STILLER

Gorgeous Rumor Trash
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.
BEN STILLER

Kids Thinking Together
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.
BEN STILLER

Direction Opportunity Successful
You have to stay in character in between takes.
BEN STILLER

Character Stay Take
Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
BEN STILLER

Essence Moisture Wetness
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
BEN STILLER

Games Hurt Play
My parents used to throw great New Year’s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
BEN STILLER

New Year Party Years
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.
BEN STILLER

Acting Becoming College
I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.
BEN STILLER

Giving Thinking Trying

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