Blue Steel! The 9 Best 'Zoolander' Quotes in Honor of the Film's 20th Anniversary

The 9 best 'Zoolander' quotes to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the premiere. The film follows a male fashion named Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller).

Before actor Ben Stiller performed a safety guard in Night at the Museum or a smug gymnasium proprietor in Dodgeball, he played a really ridiculously good-looking male fashion in the 2001 comedy Zoolander.

The movie follows the aforementioned model, Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller), who looks like his star energy is dwindling due to the emerging recognition of Hansel (Owen Wilson).

After Zoolander publicizes his retirement, fashion designer Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell) makes an attempt to brainwash the style to assassinate the prime minister of Malaysia, who plans to restrict child hard work.

Zoolander also stars Ben's real-life wife, Christine Taylor, as his on-screen love hobby, Matilda Jeffries. His dad, Jerry Stiller, performs the style's agent, Maury Ballstein.

The film presented viewers to the Blue Steel glance, together with very tiny cell phones and the power of a fashion walk-off. The star-studded comedy — which featured cameos from David Bowie, Winona Ryder, Lenny Kravitz, Gwen Stefani, Victoria Beckham, and Paris Hilton — celebrates its 20th anniversary on Sept. 28, 2021.

Keep scrolling to look nine of the best quotes from the movie.

Here are 9 of the best 'Zoolander' quotes in honor of the film's 20th anniversary.

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Even when Derek looks like he is failing in his modeling career and prefer he must pursue another undertaking, his confidence in his seems by no means wavers. This line comes several scenes after Derek tells Matilda that he knew he sought after to be a type since the 2nd grade, when he came upon that he may "be professionally good-looking" as a job.

2. "Eugoogoolizer. One who speaks at funerals. Or did you think I'd be too stupid to know what a eugoogly was?"

The major explanation why Mugatu targets Zoolander for his brainwashing plan is because the fashion is not exactly recognized for his smarts. After his 3 friends perish in a gasoline explosion, Zoolander has a difficult time pronouncing the phrase "eulogy."

3."Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot."

During his intro package for his VH1 Fashion Awards nomination, Hansel will get deep about his heroes: Richard Gere and Sting. While he does not say why Richard Gere is an inspiration, his feedback about Sting discuss for themselves.

4. "The original Greek word 'model' means 'misshapen ball of clay,' and I try to think about that every time I go in front of the camera."

Like Hansel, Zoolander is also trying to sound profound and philosophical when he talks about his occupation at the VH1 award show.

5. J.P. Prewitt: "Male models don't think for themselves"

Zoolander: "That's not true."

J.P. Prewitt: "Yes it is."

Zoolander: "OK."

This exchange lightens up an otherwise-tense scene, when hand style J.P. Prewitt (David Duchovny) tells Zoolander that tough figures have lengthy used male models as assassins.

6. "You think you're too cool for school, but I got a newsflash for you, Walter Cronkite. You aren't."

Zoolander delivers this line proper ahead of his and Hansel's walk-off on the runway. The clever nature of the burn (Walter Cronkite was an anchorman for the CBS Evening News) is sort of out of personality for Zoolander.

7. "What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building? I don't want to hear your excuses! The center has to be at least three times bigger than this."

When Mugatu tries to tempt Zoolander to work with him on the Derelicte collection, he presentations him a model of what his Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good may just seem like. Zoolander thinks that the construction is a full-size rendering, which is why he mentions the ants.

8. "Todd! Are you not aware that I get farty and bloated with a foamy latte?"

Mugatu isn't satisfied when his assistant, Todd (Nathan Lee Graham), delivers him a coffee — and the fashion designer throws the scalding hot liquid everywhere him to further turn out that time.

9. Larry Zoolander: "You're more dead to me than your dead mother. I just thank the lord she didn't live to see her son as a mermaid."

Derek Zoolander: "Mer-man!"

After at some point in the coal mine along with his dad, Larry (Jon Voight), and his two brothers (Vince Vaughn and Judah Friedlander), Zoolander realizes that he is no longer cut out for his family's business. He apologizes for his "perfect bone structure" and the proven fact that his hair seems to be better when it is not "hidden under a stupid hat with a light on it!"

Larry then expresses his disappointment in his son's profession, and he references when the fashion performed a sea creature in a TV advertisement.

Unsurprisingly, Zoolander handiest seems to take factor with his father calling him a mermaid instead of a merman.

When you might be achieved perusing this list, you'll be able to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Zoolander with an orange mocha frappuccino.

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