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Ben Stiller
American
Comedian
About the author
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Acting
#Career
#Failure
#Writing
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,
American
Comedian
#Parents
#Famous
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,
American
Comedian
#Time
#Public
#Desire
#Genius
#Funny
#Overcoming
Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Retirement
My own parents were touchy-feely.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Parents
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,
American
Comedian
#People
#Parents
#New year
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,
American
Comedian
#Years
#Car
You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Daughter
#World
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Cliches
Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Sensibility
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,
American
Comedian
#People
#Work
#Fear
#Fraud
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,
American
Comedian
#Hope
#Funny
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Film
#Saying
#Old
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Meeting
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,
American
Comedian
#Talent
#Parents
#Business
#Actors
#Comedians
If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Eyes
#Dancing
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,
American
Comedian
#Successful
#Career
#Opportunity
#Fact
#Direction
I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Desire
#Actor
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,
American
Comedian
#Public
#Work
#Career
#Acceptance
#Appreciation
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Work
Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Ideas
I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Comedy
#Drama
I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Time
#Public
#Funny
#Dying
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Career
#Movies
#Comedy
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,
American
Comedian
#Want
#Work
#Wind
#Energy
I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
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.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Love
#People
#Chance
#Funny
I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Politicians
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#People
#Will
#Actor
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,
American
Comedian
#People
#Will
#Actor
#Expectations
I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Feeling
#Reason
Fashion is so over the top.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Fashion
I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
Ben Stiller,
American
Comedian
#Sense
#Humor