I'm Not 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

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience. — Jerry Stiller

I shave without using shaving cream. — Jerry 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

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's. — Jerry 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 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

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

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

I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories. — Jerry 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

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

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

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

The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film over a couple of hours. In Visitors the cuts come every 70-plus seconds. The point of view is that the stiller one can be the more open to their senses they become. The whole world is quick right now. If things can be slowed down they stay in memory longer. — Godfrey Reggio

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

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

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. — Ben Stiller

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

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

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. — Ben Stiller

The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom. — Donald Miller

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. — Ben Stiller

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

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

Do you ever wonder if what you look at is the same thing everyone else is seeing?'
He went even stiller at her side. 'Sometimes I'm sure it isn't the same ... but that's not so bad is it? Seeing the world in a different way?'
Creative vision creates art' he motioned around the gallery 'that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's a beautiful thing. — Melissa Marr

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

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

The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent. — Jerry Stiller

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances. — Jerry Stiller

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

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

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

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

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. — Jerry Stiller

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

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness. — 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

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

Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience. — Jerry Stiller

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field. — Jerry Stiller

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

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

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

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

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

The city reeked of death, and the savages that resided within its imposing starkness existed in fear of their lives. They had been shocked by the recent bloody Whitechapel murders, as if starvation, disease, moral degradation, and perpetual smog drowning all color in gray wasn't enough to bring home the pathetic reality of their miserable existence. The police were no nearer to capturing the monster that lurked in the crevices, and London seemed stiller in the dark, the streets devoid of hope. — Carol Oates

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