Jason Bateman Quotes
If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can do anything. There's tall doctors, short doctors. It doesn't matter. You don't have to be the tallest guy to play the sport of basketball, football or whatever you want to play.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.
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I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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I have a relatively good track record.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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It is good, it is better to be voted by the players - they know everything about football.
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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
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A good book is a good book. End of story.
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God has definitely been good to me.
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To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning.
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I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.
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We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.
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I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.
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Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.
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If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.
