Ben Stiller Quotes

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

Every year you learn as a person, about yourself, what works for you and what doesn't.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

As I grow older, I like to think I'm getting a little bit more mature.

Being an adult, you've already suffered enough from your own mistakes, and the world, to come to this as a humble human being. So it's not like, "I'm going to do the right thing because it advances me," as much as it's like, "I'm going to do the right thing because this puts me closest to the dream I had as a 10-year-old kid."

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Every experience makes you a man.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.