Ben Stiller Quotes

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

My career got sidetracked after fighting Holmes.

Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.

I can't think of any actor who doesn't have a flop in his career.

When I was in my twenties, I was a self-conscious, out-of-work actress. Then I decided to be a writer and got hired on an NBC show that got canceled after one year. I was heavily discouraged by someone I worked for who told me I wasn't good.

My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when "Wild Wild West" opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie - to open at $52 million - and to know the movie wasn't good.

Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.

A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.

Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made.

I don't think the failure of one film means the end of your career.

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in good films.

Without naming names, you can take some of the biggest artists of the last 25-30 years and point to those moments where they thought they were going to be movie stars, put the entire weight of a film on their back, and it failed. And some of them didn't recover from that.

The UFC was the black spot in my career and my life.

It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers stopped casting me, saying I am bringing bad luck to their film.

When 'Fitoor' didn't work, it affected me a lot. It hurts when a film doesn't do well.

There have been times where I lost a job or whatever, and I think, "Okay, well that's just not part of my lane."

I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I got kicked off it because of possession of cocaine.

I'm sad about my theatre career, but I've also fallen a bit in love with TV!

When I was in MTV, I wasn't really looking out to do films.

I had several offers to act in films. But I rejected all of them and decided to plunge into politics.

I had spent four years at Le Havre, and when they told me they weren't keeping me, because I wasn't good for the second division, that hit me hard.