It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn’t be anonymous.
BEN STILLERI’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.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.
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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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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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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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Whatever talent I had, I’m sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
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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.
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I think the most serious genre is the thing you’re going to get the most out of. If you’re trying to satirise a comedy, it’s hard to do that – it doesn’t really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I’m a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.
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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 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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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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Fashion is so over the top.
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I’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
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I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
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