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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.

Ben Stiller

All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
BEN STILLER

Gorgeous Rumor Trash
I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.
BEN STILLER

Cruise Running Thinking
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
BEN STILLER

Career Movie Way
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.
BEN STILLER

Character Dark Thinking
God was showing off when he made you.
BEN STILLER

Faith Keep Made Showing
And I was like, “Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I’ll fill 120 hours of my life with something.” So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.
BEN STILLER

Anything Disaster Flirting Hour Something
My parents used to throw great New Year’s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
BEN STILLER

New Year Party Years
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.
BEN STILLER

Bipolar Guy Thinking
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.
BEN STILLER

Country Fun Growing
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.
BEN STILLER

Childhood Home Parent
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Creative Test
I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
BEN STILLER

Dodgeball Faces Thinking
The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
BEN STILLER

Cliche Generic Plot
It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
BEN STILLER

Laugh Laughing Make People
I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
BEN STILLER

Character Comedy Endure
As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.
BEN STILLER

Dream Kids Successful

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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