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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.

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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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I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
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Fashion is so over the top.
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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!
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I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.
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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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I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.
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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.'
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It's hard to maintain a sense of dignity in an audition. I have done so many auditions where I've put it out there and have been met with that kind of blank stare - Great! Thanks! OK! Great work! Thanks for coming in! At the door I'm thinking, 'What the hell am I doing with my life?'
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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.
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