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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.

Ben Stiller

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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Careers Guy Writing
I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
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Being Good Life Looking More Real
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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Acceptance Appreciation Grateful
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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Comedy Thinking Translate
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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Including People Want
I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
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Cruise Running Thinking
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
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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Fashion Funny Silly
It’s what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I’m about.
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Wanted Way Writing
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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Caring Names Stars
Fashion is so over the top.
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Comedy Fashion Over Top
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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Comedy Meeting Shattered
When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don’t think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.
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Kids Thinking Together
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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Childhood Home Parent
When 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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Creativity Grow Spinal Tap Up
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
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.
BEN STILLER

Humorous People Real
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.
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Audition Blessing Parent
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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Book Ideas Simple
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
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Comedy Creative Test
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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Career Movie Way
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
Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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After Comedy Force Retirement
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.
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Dream Kids Successful
My parents used to throw great New Year’s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
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New Year Party Years
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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Games Hurt Play
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.
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Anything Disaster Flirting Hour Something

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