I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
BEN STILLERIt’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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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.
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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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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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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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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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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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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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God was showing off when he made you.
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