Best 69 quotes of Ben Stiller on MyQuotes

A eugoogoolizer...one who speaks at funerals...Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?

All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.

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.

Fashion is so over the top.

First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'

I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.

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.

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood.

I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

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.

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.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

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.

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.

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

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.

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

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.

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.

I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

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.

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

My own parents were touchy-feely.

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.

Nobody makes me bleed my own blood - nobody!

Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God, and we thank You oh sweet, sweet Lord of hosts for the smörgåsbord You have so aptly laid at our table this day, and each day, by day, day by day, by day oh dear Lord three things we pray to love Thee more dearly, to see Thee more clearly, to follow Thee more nearly, day, by day, by day. Amen.