I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
BEN STILLERI don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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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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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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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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 grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
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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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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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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 actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.
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You’re freaked out that you’re going to be having a child, and once you’re looking after your daughter, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.
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Whatever talent I had, I’m sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
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People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, ‘I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.’
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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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God was showing off when he made you.
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