His full name is Benjamin Edward Stiller. Born in New York on 30 November 1965, Ben Stiller grew up in Manhattan. His father Jerry Stiller was an actor, writer and comedian, his mother Anne Stiller was an actress, comedian and screenwriter. Her sister Amy was an actress.
Here Our List of Ben Stiller Quotes
1- “Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.” -Ben Stiller
2- “I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.” -Ben Stiller
3- “I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.” -Ben Stiller
4- “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.” -Ben Stiller
“You could trouble me for a warm glass of shut the hell up!” – Orderly Nurse (Happy Gilmore)
5- “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.” -Ben Stiller
6- 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.” -Ben Stiller
7- “I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.” -Ben Stiller
8- “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.” -Ben Stiller
“ Goodbye mama, now you can have ice cream in heavan! I’ll see you again tonight when I go to bed in my head movies. But this head movie makes my eyes rain!” Tugg Speedman (Tropic Thunder)
9- “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.” -Ben Stiller
10- “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!” -Ben Stiller
11- “Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.” -Ben Stiller Quotes
12- “I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.” -Ben Stiller
13- “You’re freaked out that you’re going to be having a child, and once you’re looking after your daughter, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.” -Ben Stiller
14- “I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.” -Ben Stiller
15- “A eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals… Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?” -Ben Stiller
16- “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.” -Ben Stiller
17- “I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.” -Ben Stiller
18- “I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.” -Ben Stiller
19- “People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, ‘I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.'” -Ben Stiller
20- “My own parents were touchy-feely.” -Ben Stiller
21- “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.” -Ben Stiller
22- “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.” -Ben Stiller
23- “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.” -Ben Stiller
24- “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.” -Ben Stiller
25- “I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.” -Ben Stiller
26- “All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.” -Ben Stiller
27- “When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic. I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?” -Ben Stiller
28- “The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.” -Ben Stiller
29- “I’m just not a naturally cheery person. I’m naturally moody. I know that from people who spend a lot of time with me. People who spend a lot of time with me may not wish to spend a lot more time with me.” -Ben Stiller
30- “I wanted to be funny for people who didn’t care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.” -Ben Stiller
31- “There’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.” -Ben Stiller
32- “Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.” -Ben Stiller
33- “I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.” -Ben Stiller
34- “I know that I’m better as an actor when I’m working with a good actor. I think anytime you’re working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.” -Ben Stiller
“Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?” – Derek Zoolander
35- “The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.” -Ben Stiller
36- “I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.” -Ben Stiller
37- “Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.” -Ben Stiller
38- “I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !” -Ben Stiller
39- “It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn’t be anonymous.” -Ben Stiller
40- “God was showing off when he made you.” -Ben Stiller
41- “When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.” -Ben Stiller
42- “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.” -Ben Stiller
43- “It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.” -Ben Stiller
44- “Success doesn’t necessarily mean happiness.” -Ben Stiller
45- “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.” -Ben Stiller
46- “Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!” -Ben Stiller
47- “I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.” -Ben Stiller
48- “Fashion is so over the top.” -Ben Stiller
49- “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.” -Ben Stiller
50- “You have to stay in character in between takes.” -Ben Stiller
51- “There’s a sense here in L.A. that everybody’s aware of everybody all the time. It’s funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.” -Ben Stiller
52- “Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.” -Ben Stiller
53- “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.” -Ben Stiller
54- “I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.” -Ben Stiller
55- “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.” -Ben Stiller
56- “I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.” -Ben Stiller
57- “Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!” -Ben Stiller
58- “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.” -Ben Stiller
59- “Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.” -Ben Stiller
60- “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.” -Ben Stiller
61- “I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.” -Ben Stiller
62- “I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.” -Ben Stiller
63- “Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.” -Ben Stiller
64- “I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.” -Ben Stiller
65- “I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”” -Ben Stiller
66- “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
67- “I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”” -Ben Stiller
68- “I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.” -Ben Stiller
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