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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.

Ben Stiller

It’s weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I’m expected to be humorous on talk shows.
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Humorous People Real
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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Burning Desire Taken
I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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Country History Together
I’m just not a naturally cheery person. I’m naturally moody. I know that from people who spend a lot of time with me. People who spend a lot of time with me may not wish to spend a lot more time with me.
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May People Wish
I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.
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Countrymen Depressed Fellow People
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.
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Country Fun Growing
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
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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Book Find Guy Idea Jagger Million Simple
You have to stay in character in between takes.
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Character Stay Take
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.
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Desire Genius Overcoming
Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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Anything Milk Nipples
Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!
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Blood Dodgeball Underdog
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.
BEN STILLER

Being Good Life Looking More Real
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.
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Kids Thinking Together
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
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Careers Guy Writing
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 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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