Top 100 Stiller's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories.
Jerry Stiller
#4. I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
Ben Stiller
#5. It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.
Jerry Stiller
#6. We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.
Jerry Stiller
#7. Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.
Manohla Dargis
#8. Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
Ben Stiller
#9. I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
Ben Stiller
#10. 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
#11. Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.
Jerry Stiller
#12. I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.
Ben Stiller
#13. You have to stay in character in between takes.
Ben Stiller
#14. 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
#15. The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
Ben Stiller
#16. I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.
Ben Stiller
#17. 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
#18. All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.
Ben Stiller
#19. I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.
Jerry Stiller
#20. The big-name stars ... are always going to be playing what they've played before if they want to remain so-called A-list stars. That's why someone like Johnny Depp is doing more interesting roles not caring about the size of the movie.
Ben Stiller
#21. I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
Ben Stiller
#22. 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
#23. It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.
Ben Stiller
#24. My wisdom has accumulated long like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.-
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. 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
#26. I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
Ben Stiller
#27. Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.
Ben Stiller
#28. I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.
Ben Stiller
#29. 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
#30. I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.
Eli Roth
#31. Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!
Ben Stiller
#32. In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.
John Drinkwater
#33. You have trouble living in the present, so you linger on the past because you feel like you never really lived it
Ben Stiller
#34. 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
#35. There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
Ben Stiller
#36. Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
Ben Stiller
#37. Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
Jerry Stiller
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.
Ben Stiller
#42. During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
Jerry Stiller
#43. 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
#44. I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
Ben Stiller
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
Ben Stiller
#48. My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.
Jerry Stiller
#49. 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
#50. Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.
Ben Stiller
#51. 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
#52. I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.
Jerry Stiller
#53. What the hell am I doing with my life?
Ben Stiller
#54. 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
#55. Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
Ben Stiller
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
Ben Stiller
#59. Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.
Jerry Stiller
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. We are even better looking on the small screen
Jerry Stiller
#64. 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
#65. One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.
James Jeans
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#71. Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.
Jerry Stiller
#72. I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
Ben Stiller
#73. I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
Ben Stiller
#74. Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.
Jerry Stiller
#75. Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.
Ben Stiller
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.
Ben Stiller
#80. I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
Ben Stiller
#81. The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
Jerry Stiller
#82. I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."
Ben Stiller
#83. 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
#84. A eugoogoolizer ... one who speaks at funerals ... Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
Ben Stiller
#85. 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
#86. I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.
Jerry Stiller
#87. 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
#88. Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.
Jerry Stiller
#89. The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Ben Stiller
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
Ben Stiller
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.
Michael Pena
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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