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.
BEN STILLERWhen 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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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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I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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Fashion is so over the top.
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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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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.
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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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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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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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