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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

Ben Stiller

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it’s called bipolar manic depression. I’ve got a rich history of that in my family.
BEN STILLER

Bipolar Guy Thinking
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.’
BEN STILLER

People Personality Thinking
I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
BEN STILLER

Cruise Running Thinking
I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.
BEN STILLER

Burning Desire Taken
The big-name stars . . . are always going to be playing what they’ve played before if they want to remain so-called A-list stars. That’s why someone like Johnny Depp is doing more interesting roles not caring about the size of the movie.
BEN STILLER

Caring Names Stars
A eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
BEN STILLER

Funeral Stupid Thinking
There’s a sense here in L.A. that everybody’s aware of everybody all the time. It’s funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.
BEN STILLER

Including People Want
I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
BEN STILLER

Daughter Start Working
It’s what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I’m about.
BEN STILLER

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

Character Comedy Endure
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.
BEN STILLER

Desire Genius Overcoming
Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Own Sensibility
I’m Jewish, but my mom’s Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I’m still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It’s a process, really.
BEN STILLER

Ideas Mom Reality
The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
BEN STILLER

Cliche Generic Plot
I know that I’m better as an actor when I’m working with a good actor. I think anytime you’re working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.
BEN STILLER

Actor Knows Thinking
Fashion is so over the top.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Fashion Over Top

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