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Ben Stiller, born on November 30, 1965, is an American actor, director, and producer. He is known for his comedic roles in films such as 'Meet the Parents' series and 'Night at the Museum'. Stiller's achievements in the film industry have made him a versatile artist.

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

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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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“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.”

“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.'”

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“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.”

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

Whole Comedy Meetings Shattered

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“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.”

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“Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.”

My Own Comedy Sensibility

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

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

Bits Comedy Drama Devalue

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“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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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Comedy Translate

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

Enjoy Ability Creative Comedy Tests

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

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“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.”

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

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“Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.”

Comedy Retirement

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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.”

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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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“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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“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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“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!”

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“Fashion is so over the top.”

Comedy Fashion Over The Top

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“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.”

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Born: November 30, 1965
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 81

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