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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: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 30
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Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller
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Fashion is so over the top.
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I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.
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Nobody makes me bleed my own blood - nobody!
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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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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.
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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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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.
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I've been to Japan but I've never been to China, I'd love to go to China. I don't know, I like to go to places that are remote. So, I think I'd like to do that more. And just sort of also explore not having a structured work life someday, to have more free time to sort of see what happens.
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I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.
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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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I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
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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 don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, Oh, you must have had a great childhood.
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