Ben Stiller Quotes
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
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It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it's not even that you feel that you're gonna do a good job, it's that you feel like you've found it. It fits, it's natural; it's like putting on a good shoe or something.
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As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
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The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
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It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
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Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?
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I can still sing. If you are dead, you can't sing.
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There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
