Ben Stiller Quotes

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

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.

Fashion is so over the top.

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

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.

Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

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.

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

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.

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

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

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

Nobody makes me bleed my own blood - nobody!

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.

God was showing off when he made you.

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

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.

I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

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!

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.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

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.

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.

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

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

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

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."

If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.

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

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

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

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

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

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.

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.

My own parents were touchy-feely.

As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.

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.

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.

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.