Ben Stiller Net Worth

Ben Stiller's Quotes

• [on advice he receives from his father, Jerry Stiller] My father is always telling me to take care of myself and get a lot of rest. He's always saying, "Sleep will fix anything. Go take a nap". I think he's right. I find when I get frazzled, if I get a good night's sleep, I feel much better about things.
• If my parents were, like, plumbers, who knows what I would be doing?
• There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
• I have no problem with straight actors playing gay, but I always feel like I can tell. Does that sound horrible?
• I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family. Our family has publicly gone into therapy, so that's out in the open.

Interesting Facts about Ben Stiller

1. Produced a short film parody of The Color of Money (1986) entitled "The Hustler of Money" which got him noticed by Saturday Night Live (1975) who eventually offered him employment there.
2. Is a major fan of Tom Cruise and has impersonated Tom for many years. He even portrayed Tom Cruise's fictitious crazed stunt double, Tom Crooze, on 2000 MTV Movie Awards (2000) on a segment called Mission: Improbable. (This segment is included on the Mission: Impossible II (2000) DVD.) Tom and Ben have been friends ever since 1996.
3. Appeared in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1998) on May 9, 2001 and walked away with $32,000 for Project ALS. He phoned his mother, actress Anne Meara, for help but lost on the question worth $250,000.
4. Often casts/co-stars with Janeane Garofalo.
5. Ben and his wife Christine Taylor, have both guest starred on the TV-show Friends (1994), though not in the same episode.
6. Attended UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.
7. Briefly appears in the film clip for the song "Tribute" by Tenacious D, a band that includes fellow actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass. He's one of the people walking past the studio booth in the shopping center.
8. Ranked #78 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #68 in 2002 and #80 in 2001.
9. Stiller's famous parents, Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, and his sister Amy Stiller often made cameo appearances in his movies.
10. Has a Hollywood "clique" of close friends that have often appeared in his movies: Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Kyle Gass and Janeane Garofalo.
11. Helped Jenifer Estess raised millions of dollars to combat A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig's disease).
12. His favorite actress of all time is Diane Keaton. He even wrote an article about her for Premiere magazine in 1997.
13. Frequent co-star of Vince Vaughn, appearing with him in three movies in 2004 alone.
14. Is a member of, what the media refers to as, "The Frat Pack," along with Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Vince Vaughn, Steve Carell, Owen Wilson, and Luke Wilson. The "Frat Pack" name is a reference to the film, Old School (2003), featuring Vaughn, Ferrell and Luke Wilson, due to the wide number of films featuring the seven actors. Stiller's "Frat Pack" films include Zoolander (2001), Envy (2004), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)..
15. Is a big fan of Star Trek (1966). He named his production company "Red Hour Films" after an alien riot featured in the episode Star Trek: The Return of the Archons (1967). Has a humorous, You Tube website "gag" episode of "Star Trek" where he is imitating Shatner's Captain Kirk.
16. Holds a distinct Razzie Award record - nominated for most titles in one year. He was nominated in 2004 for Worst Actor in five of the six films in which he appeared: Along Came Polly (2004), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Envy (2004), and Starsky & Hutch (2004). The only film he was not nominated in for that year was Meet the Fockers (2004).
17. Has played two very similar characters in the movies Heavyweights (1995) and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). In both films he plays an obnoxious, slightly insane and formerly overweight fitness instructor who's hell-bent on getting others into shape, and perhaps also on making other peoples' lives miserable.
18. Played the part of an arrogant director in Get Shorty (1995), but the scene was cut.
19. In The King of Queens: Shrink Wrap (2002) he played his own real-life father's father.
20. Hosted the MTV Movie Awards in 1996 along with Janeane Garofalo