I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
BEN STILLERIf you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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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 don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
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I think the most serious genre is the thing you’re going to get the most out of. If you’re trying to satirise a comedy, it’s hard to do that – it doesn’t really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I’m a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.
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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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I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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I’m Jewish, but my mom’s Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I’m still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It’s a process, really.
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God was showing off when he made you.
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My own parents were touchy-feely.
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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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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 don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
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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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It was Mick Jagger’s idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It’s a great book – really stark, not a comedy – about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.
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I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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