Jason Bateman Quotes
I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, ... And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.
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My favourite time of year is two weeks before Christmas when everybody's up for it - you're having lunches with people, drinking Cosmopolitans, and getting ready for something exciting!
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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I like to show the grey area in all my characters.
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I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.
