133 Quotes by Ben Stiller

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.

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’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

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

You’re freaked out that you’re going to be having a child, and once you’re looking after your daughter, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.

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!

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 wanted to be funny for people who didn’t care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.

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