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
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.
able tasks speed
Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.
stupid thinking funeral
A eugoogoolizer...one who speaks at funerals...Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
people wish may
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.
new-york fun flirting
I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?" And I was like, "Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something." So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.
country couple dad
It's important that we came here, just to touch base here in this great country... When I was about 16 I came with my dad for a couple of weeks and had a great time and I've wanted to come back, it's been way too long. So, I'm very happy to be here and I want to come back longer with the rest of my family.
wind want way
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.
fashion over-the-top
Fashion is so over the top.
american-comedian everybody liked rewarding
We did the movie because we liked the script; everybody wanted to do the movie just to have fun, and that was the most rewarding part of the process.
american-comedian episodes fan kid michael paul watched
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.