I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
BEN STILLERThere’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.
More Ben Stiller Quotes
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I know that I’m better as an actor when I’m working with a good actor. I think anytime you’re working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.
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I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.
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Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
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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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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
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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’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer’s couch in New York, and he said, “I’ve got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?”
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I’m just not a naturally cheery person. I’m naturally moody. I know that from people who spend a lot of time with me. People who spend a lot of time with me may not wish to spend a lot more time with me.
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People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, ‘I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.’
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A eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
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You have to stay in character in between takes.
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Fashion is so over the top.
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