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.
BEN STILLERI 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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I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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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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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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If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
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There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!
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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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There’s a sense here in L.A. that everybody’s aware of everybody all the time. It’s funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.
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I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
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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 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’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
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All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
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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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It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
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