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  • 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.

  • I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

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

  • All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.

  • 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.

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

  • I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.

    "Stars Who've Battled Bipolar Disorder" by Lauren Schutte, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 13, 2011.
  • I know that I'm better as an actor when I'm working with a good actor. I think anytime you're working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.

  • There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

    FaceBook post by Ben Stiller from Dec 02, 2012
  • 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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  • I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

  • 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.

    "Zoolander". www.imdb.com. 2001.
  • Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

    "Fictional character: Derek Zoolander". "Zoolander", Comedy, 2001.
  • 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.

  • Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

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

  • People like to define you through what they've seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, 'I've been a bumbling suitor all my life.'

    "Born Funny" by Margot Dougherty, Reader's Digest, September 2007.
  • I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.

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

  • I love history. I'm very interested by it and I think it's great to have a movie that brings it alive in a way. It's sort of that romanticized version of it.

    "‘Night at the Museum’: Stiller and Van Dyke Talk Comedy". Hollywood.com interview, www.hollywood.com.
  • Fashion is so over the top.

    "'Zoolander': Ben Stiller Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.
  • 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, Dick Van Dyke for “Night at the Museum”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. December 12, 2006.
  • Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God, and we thank You oh sweet, sweet Lord of hosts for the smörgåsbord You have so aptly laid at our table this day, and each day, by day, day by day, by day oh dear Lord three things we pray to love Thee more dearly, to see Thee more clearly, to follow Thee more nearly, day, by day, by day. Amen.

  • 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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!

  • A eugoogoolizer...one who speaks at funerals...Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?

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

  • 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.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • 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. I don't feel like I have a very clear idea of what I'm supposed to be, or even of how people perceive me, except that I got put into this Generation X file.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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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