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.
BEN STILLERI 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.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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I don’t think know if anything’s going to translate anywhere. You’re making a movie, you hope it’s going to be funny, you can’t think about how it’s going to go over.
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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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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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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 know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
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I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
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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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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.
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God was showing off when he made you.
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I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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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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