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How Ben Stiller Has Learned to Deal with Bad Reviews and Box Office Bombs · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Ben Stiller has had more home runs than misses at
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Speaker 2: the box office across his career, more critically acclaimed projects
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Speaker 2: than nitpicks material. But he's experienced the highs and lows
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Speaker 2: that come after years of time and energy invested in
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Speaker 2: a creative pursuit, and he's learned to accept whatever comes
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Speaker 2: when some debuts. Telling The New York Times The Interview podcast,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to point my life where I consider, do
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Speaker 2: I really want to take this chance right now? How
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Speaker 2: much do I care about what the quote unquote bad
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Speaker 2: result is. You learn to care a little less about
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Speaker 2: that the day after something doesn't do well or gets
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Speaker 2: bad reviews. It's not like anything in your life has changed.
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Speaker 2: It's just how you feel. You feel embarrassed or think,
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Speaker 2: I want it to be the winner. But winning doesn't
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Speaker 2: always happen. It usually doesn't, so you have to live
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Speaker 2: with that. It's Ben Stiller. One of the projects that
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Speaker 2: can certainly be considered a win is Severance, which just
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Speaker 2: returned for his second season, streaming now on Apple TV Plus.
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