Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
BEN STILLERWhen I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can’t go much further because ultimately it’s feeding off of somebody else’s creativity.
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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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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
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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 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’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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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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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.
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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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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!
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I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary.
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I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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