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 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.
writing way wanted
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.
taken desire way
I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
wind shining way
I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
careers way comedy
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
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.
american-comedian gets hopefully people presented public
When you come out with a film, hopefully it gets presented to the public in the right way so people aren't getting something they don't expect.
american-comedian easy finding happy life pleasantly share woman
Finding a woman to share your life is not an easy thing in the first place, and then to find yourself happy is even more pleasantly surprising.
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.
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.
thinking japan someday
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.
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.