Jason Bateman Quotes
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.
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I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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A lot of people have an opinion. If you listen to them too much, your work will get influenced, and you make no one happy.
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There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.
