Quotes from Ben Stiller

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

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

God was showing off when he made you.

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.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

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 just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.

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

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

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.

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

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

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

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 always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

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.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

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.

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

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

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