I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
BEN STILLERI 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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Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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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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Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
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I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.
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Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn’t let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I’ve decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.
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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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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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I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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