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Fashion is so over the top.

Ben Stiller

It was Mick Jagger’s idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It’s a great book – really stark, not a comedy – about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.
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Book Find Guy Idea Jagger Million Simple
I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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Daughter Start Working
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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Acting Becoming College
All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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Gorgeous Rumor Trash
A eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
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Funeral Stupid Thinking
You have to stay in character in between takes.
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Character Stay Take
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.
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Energy Want Wind
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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Actors People Thinking
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.
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Actor Knows Thinking
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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Comedy Genre Movie Satrise Serious Well
When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.
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Country Fun Growing
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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Kind Thinking World
It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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Laugh Laughing Make People
I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer’s couch in New York, and he said, “I’ve got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?”
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Country Flirting Fun
There’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.
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Film Hollywood Use
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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Giving Thinking Trying

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