Ben Stiller

And my mom was much more... I don't know, she just would kind of go out there and go with it and had just...

this sort of natural ability to be on stage and let it happen and be comfortable on stage.

Yeah.

You know, I think most actors have a certain...

sense of wanting approval.

You know, you want people to like what you do and you can't really control that.

And the question, of course, in life is how much you care about that or not.

And he would talk about this too.

He'd talk about it very openly that he said, I need that love from the audience.

And I mean, you know, it's kind of armchair psychology, but, you know, he had a couple of parents who

he didn't get a lot of nurturing from when he was a kid.

They fought a lot and they were very poor and nobody was encouraging him to go into show business.

And he found that acceptance when he, you know, went into the theater, he went to Syracuse University and he performed in plays and he, you know, found his people and found this warmth and acceptance in the theater.

And

And he was always, you know, always connecting with people.

I think he loved talking to people.

He loved when fans would come up and, you know, say hi to him.

And it meant something to him.

And my mother had a very different relationship with it.

I mean, there wasn't, honestly, it was a lot of fun.