Fashion is so over the top.
- Ben Stiller Quote
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 Quote (Collider, about "Tropic Thunder")
I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
- Ben Stiller Quote
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 Quote
I don’t know, but I think he’s awesome. I sent him the script and I give him credit for really coming up with that character. He really liked the script and wanted to be a part of it. At one point, I was thinking of him playing the agent’s role (Matthew McConaughey), and then he said, “Well, this studio guy — it’d really be interesting to be this studio guy.” I said, “Alright. That’s interesting. I hadn’t thought about that.” He said, “I really want to have big hands - big, hairy hands. I want to have really big hands.” I said, “Really?” He goes, “Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a guy who’ll make the hands. Let me show you.” I said, “Okay, well how about if you’re bald too?” He goes, “Okay, yeah. I’ll try that.” We did some make-up tests. We ended up doing three make-up tests and really got this look together. Then he started dancing and he said, “I think I want to dance with this guy.” Then he started dancing in the make-up test. We were filming the make-up test. I got the film back and put some music to it, just for fun. There was no dancing in the movie or anything, and I thought, “Wow, this is really good.” He was dancing in perfect time to this music that wasn’t there.
- Ben Stiller Quote (Buzzine, about "Tropic Thunder", about Tom Cruise)
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 Quote
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.
- Ben Stiller Quote
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
- Ben Stiller Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
- Ben Stiller Quote
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 Quote
I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
- Ben Stiller Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.
- Ben Stiller Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
- Ben Stiller Quote
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 Quote
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
- Ben Stiller Quote
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 Quote (Collider, about "Tropic Thunder")
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 Quote
Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
- Ben Stiller Quote
