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Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.

Ben Stiller

Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
BEN STILLER

Anything Milk Nipples
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.
BEN STILLER

Caring Names Stars
I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”
BEN STILLER

Childhood Fantasy People
I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
BEN STILLER

Needs Shining Wind
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
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.
BEN STILLER

Book Find Guy Idea Jagger Million Simple
I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.
BEN STILLER

Hockey Play Skates
I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary.
BEN STILLER

Book Ideas Simple
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
I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.
BEN STILLER

Giving Thinking Trying
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.
BEN STILLER

Ideas Mom Reality
God was showing off when he made you.
BEN STILLER

Faith Keep Made Showing
There’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.
BEN STILLER

Film Hollywood Use
If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.
BEN STILLER

Dancing Eye Looks
Fashion is so over the top.
BEN STILLER

Comedy Fashion Over Top
I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
BEN STILLER

Dying Necessarily Public Thinking

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