Ben Stiller Quotes - Page 3

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• Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.

  Ben Stiller

  Tasks, Able, Speed

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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.

  Ben Stiller

  People, Want, Including

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Character, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, World, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  New Year, Party, Years

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• 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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  Depressing, New York, Giving Up

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• Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.

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  Nipples, Milk

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• I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

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  Character, Comedy, Endure

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• 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.

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  Home, Childhood, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.

  Ben Stiller

  Growing Up, Creativity, Spinal Tap

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Parent, Comedian, Directors

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• I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

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  Country, Together, American History

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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.

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  Desire, Overcoming, Genius

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• Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

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  Comedy, My Own, Sensibility

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• I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.

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  Funny, Fashion, Silly

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• Nobody makes me bleed my own blood - nobody!

  Ben Stiller

  Blood, Underdog, Dodgeball

  "Fictional character: White Goodman". "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story ", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• 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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  Stars, Caring, Names

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• 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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  Blessing, Parent, Auditions

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• The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

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  Plot, Cliche, Generic

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• 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

  "‘Night at the Museum’: Stiller and Van Dyke Talk Comedy". Hollywood. com interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

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  Hockey, Play, Skates

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• I'd love to travel more. I really look forward to traveling with my kids. I'm just waiting for them to want to travel with me.

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  Kids, Waiting, Looks

  "Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig Talk THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, Filming in Iceland, Balancing Fantasy and Reality, Comparisons to the Original, and More". Press conference, collider.com. April 21, 2013.

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• I've been to Japan but I've never been to China, I'd love to go to China. I don't know, I like to go to places that are remote. So, I think I'd like to do that more. And just sort of also explore not having a structured work life someday, to have more free time to sort of see what happens.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, Japan, Someday

  "Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig Talk THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, Filming in Iceland, Balancing Fantasy and Reality, Comparisons to the Original, and More". Press conference, collider.com. April 21, 2013.

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• 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. 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, Simple, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

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  Drama, People, Expectations

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