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 STILLERThe failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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 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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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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God was showing off when he made you.
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I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.
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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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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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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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Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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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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