Best Ben Stiller Quotes & Sayings

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it. — Ben Stiller

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

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

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

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

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.' — Ben Stiller

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

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

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

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

Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps. — Ben Stiller

Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing. — Ben Stiller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny. — Michael Pena

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

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

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

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty. — Ben Stiller

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

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness. — Ben Stiller

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

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

God was showing off when he made you. — Ben Stiller

Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples. — Ben Stiller

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

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again. — Ben Stiller

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

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