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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.

Ben Stiller

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Ben Stiller
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 30
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The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
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Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!
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I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.
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