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.
BEN STILLERThe 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.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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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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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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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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Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
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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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I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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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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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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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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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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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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There’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.
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