Top 54 I'm Not Stiller Quotes
#1. A eugoogoolizer ... one who speaks at funerals ... Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
Ben Stiller
#2. Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.
Jerry Stiller
#3. I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.
Owen Wilson
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
Ben Stiller
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. It looked like Ben Stiller was one of the showbiz meteorites who was moving so fast he would soon have no worlds left to conquer.
Manohla Dargis
#11. Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.
Jerry Stiller
#12. 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
#13. I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.
Jerry Stiller
#14. I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.
Ben Stiller
#15. It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.
Michael Pena
#16. 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
#17. I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."
Ben Stiller
#18. I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
Jerry Stiller
#19. I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
Ben Stiller
#20. 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
#21. I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
Ben Stiller
#22. 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.
Ben Stiller
#23. I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.
Ben Stiller
#24. Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.
Ben Stiller
#25. 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
#26. In 'Night At The Museum 3,' with Ben Stiller, I was only given a couple of lines. If you are in guys' comedies, it's not like you are ever going to just get handed some jokes and a brilliant role.
Rebel Wilson
#27. 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
#28. There are a lot of good shows that don't get picked up. Like that Ben Stiller pilot, Heat Vision And Jack? That would have been a great show, but somehow it slipped by.
Bret McKenzie
#29. Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.
Ben Stiller
#30. Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.
Jerry Stiller
#31. I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
Ben Stiller
#32. I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
Ben Stiller
#33. Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.
Jerry Stiller
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.
Tom Hollander
#39. I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.
Jerry Stiller
#40. 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.
Ben Stiller
#41. We are even better looking on the small screen
Jerry Stiller
#42. My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
Ben Stiller
#43. Created for MTV in 1990, the sharply observed, pop-conscious Ben Stiller Show - featuring its star's lacerating impersonations of Bono, Tom Cruise, and Eddie Munster, among others - subsequently moved to Fox TV and copped an Emmy for writing.
Manohla Dargis
#44. 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
#45. Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.
Jerry Stiller
#46. Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
Ben Stiller
#47. I don't think I could do what Woody Allen or Clint Eastwood or Ben Stiller do, where they direct a movie and they star in it. I would just be like, 'Oh, I don't even want to look at my face.'
Bill Hader
#48. 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
#49. Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
Ben Stiller
#50. 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
#51. One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.
James Jeans
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.
Robert Hass
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