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Ben Stiller Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 30, 1965

Topics

Comedy Doing Career Movies Way Up

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

Guitar Steel Violin First Drum Up

Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon. She entranced Emperor Li Yu by dancing on her toes inside a six-foot golden lotus festooned with ribbons and precious stones.

Moon Feet New Said Golden She

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Beauty Promises Never Anything Gives

'Network neutrality' is sometimes called 'Internet freedom' or 'Internet openness' and is a legal principle that would forbid cable and phone companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast from blocking some websites or providing special priority to others.

Freedom Legal Internet Phone Special

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

Family School Thought Country Sides

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.

Jonathan Stroud

Life Yourself Talking You Need Room

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

Christopher Dawson

Loyalty Spiritual Society Recognition

When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you're like, 'Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.' That's what I'm doing. I'm playing among the flowers.

Day Flowers Seeds Doing You Play

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.

Love Mother Words Me Talking Speech

People are paying to see me. You've got to give something back.

People Me You Back See Something

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Looking Camera You House Quotation

I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.

Care Stock Market Lose Market Stock

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