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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.

Ben Stiller

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 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.
BEN STILLER

Character Dark Thinking
It’s weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I’m expected to be humorous on talk shows.
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Humorous People Real
There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!
BEN STILLER

People Sick Tired
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
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.
BEN STILLER

Acceptance Appreciation Grateful
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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Burning Desire Taken
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.
BEN STILLER

Drama Expectation People
You have to stay in character in between takes.
BEN STILLER

Character Stay Take
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
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
BEN STILLER

Career Movie Way
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
I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
BEN STILLER

Needs Shining Wind
I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
BEN STILLER

Hockey Play Skates
I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
BEN STILLER

Actors Insecure Thinking
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
BEN STILLER

Actors People Thinking

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