Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward Meara "Ben" Stilleris an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and the late Anne Meara...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth30 November 1965
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Ben Stiller quotes about
comedy shattered meetings
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
years ideas fake
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.
running thinking cruise
I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.
tired sick people
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!
desire genius overcoming
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.
appreciation grateful acceptance
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.
kids thinking together
When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don't think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.
parent comedian actors
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.
new-york giving-up people
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.
thinking world kind
I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.
daughter my-daughter madagascar
I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
careers way comedy
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
character dark thinking
I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.
use hollywood film
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.