Quote

I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

Ben Stein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ben Stein
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Lawyer
Screenwriter
Teacher
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Benjamin J. Stein
Benjamin Stein
Benjamin Jeremy Stein
Lawyer
Law
Content
American
University
Undergraduates
Social
Became
Cruz
Left
Teacher
Santa
Political
Taught
Trial
Film
Courses
Trials
Also
California
Time
Course

More quotes by Ben Stein

Image
Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
Ben Stein
Image
There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
Ben Stein
Image
I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
Ben Stein
Image
I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all.
Ben Stein
Image
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
Ben Stein
Image
I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
Ben Stein
Image
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
Ben Stein
Image
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
Ben Stein
Image
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
Ben Stein
Image
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein
Image
It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The only part that's me is sort of when I'm sitting in the booth looking tormented. That's the only part that's the real me.
Ben Stein
Image
If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
Ben Stein
Image
It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
Ben Stein
Image
I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.
Ben Stein
Image
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
Ben Stein
Image
I'm out and about meeting people all day long. And I'm very friendly I talk to just about everybody I meet.
Ben Stein
Image
What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
Ben Stein
Image
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
Ben Stein
Image
The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
Ben Stein
Image
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
Ben Stein