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I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
Ben Stiller
People
Will
Think
Dramatic
See
Curious
Actor
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
Good
Me
People
Will
Dramas
Would
Find
More
Allow
Like
Politely
Comic
Role
Expectations
Upset
Actor
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.
Ben Stiller
Work
Good
Appreciation
Grateful
Acceptance
Some
Had
Very
Public
Level
Career
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.
Ben Stiller
Blessing
Parents
Tough
Bad
Since
Anonymous
Auditions
Go
Mixed
Famous
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
Funny
Time
Good
Genius
Jim
Jim Carrey
He
Simply
Overcoming
Him
Because
Comic
Public
Harder
Harder Time
Desire
My own parents were touchy-feely.
Ben Stiller
Parents
Own
My Own
Were
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.
Ben Stiller
Car
Met
Before
Sweet
Back
Kind
See
He
Him
Go
Years
Encouraged
Very
Shooting
Wanted
After
Paul
Them
Us
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
Sometimes
Opportunity
Lately
Direction
Fact
Comedies
Accept
Doing
Wondered
Get
Confined
Decided
Whether
Successful
Career
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Ben Stiller
Failure
Writing
Impacted
Guy
Cable
Had
Again
Acting
Start
Career
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
Ben Stiller
Meeting
Had
Shattered
Him
Very
Quickly
After
Whole
Image
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.
Ben Stiller
Business
Parents
Whatever
Directors
Had
Talent
Comedians
Sure
Around
Were
Up
Grew
Helped
Actor
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.
Ben Stiller
Beautiful
You
World
Most Beautiful
Daughter
Looking
Once
Out
Freaked
Having
Most
Beautiful Thing
Most Beautiful Thing
Child
Going
After
Your
Thing
Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
Ben Stiller
Own
My Own
More
Sensibility
What we've discovered is that Americans seem to love our saucy humor.
Benny Hill
Love
Humor
Our
Seem
Discovered
American
To Love
Saucy
I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.
Benny Hill
Money
Worth
Television
Television Set
Covet
Any
Interest
Little
Video
Fortune
Paintings
Images
Set
I don't do something I won't enjoy just for the money. I do it for the fun, for the joy of working.
Benny Hill
Joy
Money
Enjoy
Something
Just
Working
Fun
I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the next.
Benny Hill
Sometimes
Girl
Way
Laugh
Between
Singer
His
Next
Use
Uses
Bridge
Violin
A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?
Benny Hill
Funny
Man
Sex
About
Delusion
Fails
Male
Snare
Anything
Sketches
Teach
Who
My anger is constructive.
Beppe Grillo
Anger
Constructive
I no longer feel the spirit of Europe.
Beppe Grillo
Spirit
Feel
Longer
Europe
We want to destroy everything, not rebuild on the same rubble. We have different ideas. It is like any work. You have to have a clean slate. Then, you have a programme, a new way of thinking. It is a way of thinking. Not a restoration. Parties out. Citizens instead of parties.
Beppe Grillo
Work
You
Rebuild
Thinking
Rubble
Everything
Way
Destroy
Out
Citizens
Restoration
Clean
Instead
New
Like
Ideas
Parties
Same
New Way
Any
Different
Want
Different Ideas
Then
Slate
Programme
Left, right, populism... all are meaningless concepts.
Beppe Grillo
Concepts
Left
Meaningless
Right
We've delegated politics to bankers. The European Central Bank is inside Deutsche Bank, and Deutsche Bank is inside the Bundesbank.
Beppe Grillo
Politics
Inside
Bank
Bankers
Central
Central Bank
European
If everyone in China is a socialist, from whom do they steal?
Beppe Grillo
Everyone
Steal
China
Whom
Socialist
For the Americans, laws are barriers to profits; it's a different mentality.
Beppe Grillo
Laws
Mentality
American
Different
Barriers
Profits
I've always been political.
Beppe Grillo
Political
Always
Been
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