Jason Bateman Quotes
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.
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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
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You have a soft spot in your heart for each movie, and you're doing certain things. You're learning as you're going, as a director, and each movie is its own entity.
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I can't assume that my kid is going to make the best decision all the time.
