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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

When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don’t think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.
BEN STILLER

Kids Thinking Together
Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
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After Comedy Force Retirement
It’s what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I’m about.
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Wanted Way Writing
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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Ideas Mom Reality
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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Car Encourage Sweet Years
I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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Daughter Start Working
I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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Country History Together
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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Audition Blessing Parent
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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Being Good Life Looking More Real
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!
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Games Hurt Play
I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
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Dodgeball Faces Thinking
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
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Actors People Thinking
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.
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Anything Disaster Flirting Hour Something
The 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.
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Caring Names Stars
I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
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Childhood Fantasy People
I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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Dying Necessarily Public Thinking

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