Ben Stiller Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• Fashion is so over the top.

  Ben Stiller

  Fashion, Comedy, Over The Top

  "'Zoolander': Ben Stiller Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

• I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

  Ben Stiller

  Wind, Energy, Want

• 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

  Desire, Overcoming, Genius

• 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!

  Ben Stiller

  Tired, People, Sick

• 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.

  Ben Stiller

  Parent, Comedian, Directors

• First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'

  Ben Stiller

  Cutting, People, Twenties

  "Ben Stiller Interview TROPIC THUNDER - ShoWest 2008". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. March 17, 2008.

• 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.

  Ben Stiller

  Sweet, Years, Car

• Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

  Ben Stiller

  Successful, Opportunity, One Direction

• Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

  Ben Stiller

  Comedy, Shattered, Meetings

  "Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman & Ben Stiller Interview". Interview for the forthcoming DVD "Meet the Fockers", www.femalefirst.co.uk. May 4, 2005.

• Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

  Ben Stiller

  Years, Ideas, Fake

  "Ben Stiller Interview TROPIC THUNDER - ShoWest 2008". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 17, 2008.

• Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

  Ben Stiller

  Comedy, My Own, Sensibility

• 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.

  Ben Stiller

  New Year, Party, Years

• I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, Comedy, Translate

• 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

• I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

  Ben Stiller

  Creative, Tests, Comedy

• When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, 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.

  Ben Stiller

  War, Thinking, Genre Is

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

  Ben Stiller

  Movie, Careers, Way

• 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.

  Ben Stiller

  Blessing, Parent, Auditions

• I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, Dodgeball, Faces

  "Dodgeball - Vince Vaughn Q&A". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

  Ben Stiller

  Writing, Careers, Guy

• Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

  Ben Stiller

  Retirement, Comedy

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

  Ben Stiller

  Character, Comedy, Endure

• I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

  Ben Stiller

  Drama, Comedy, Devalue

• I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

  Ben Stiller

  Appreciation, Grateful, Acceptance

• 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.

  Ben Stiller

  Drama, People, Expectations

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