Ben Stiller

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

“There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.”

“I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.”

“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 have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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 think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.”

“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.”