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
laughing people make-you-laugh
It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
thinking giving trying
I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.
hockey play comfortable
I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.
thinking way alive
I love history. I'm very interested by it and I think it's great to have a movie that brings it alive in a way. It's sort of that romanticized version of it.
kids waiting looks
I'd love to travel more. I really look forward to traveling with my kids. I'm just waiting for them to want to travel with me.
mom reality ideas
I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I'm still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It's a process, really. I don't feel like I have a very clear idea of what I'm supposed to be, or even of how people perceive me, except that I got put into this Generation X file.
book simple ideas
I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.
insecure thinking places-to-go
I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.
growing-up creativity spinal-tap
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.
rumor gorgeous trash
All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
real humorous people
It's weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I'm expected to be humorous on talk shows.
successful opportunity one-direction
Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.
character endure humiliation
I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
parent touchy my-own
My own parents were touchy-feely.