Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
BEN STILLERThere’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.
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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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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 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.
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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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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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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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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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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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I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it’s called bipolar manic depression. I’ve got a rich history of that in my family.
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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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I’d love to travel more. I really look forward to traveling with my kids. I’m just waiting for them to want to travel with me.
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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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I don’t think it’s ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.
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The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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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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