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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In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
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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 will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
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Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
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I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.
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Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne made very good money from both 'Insidious' movies. Word travels fast, so as soon as you have a success and do what you say you're going to do in a contract and pay out that money, we had a lot more established actors come to us and say they want to work with us.
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Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
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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.
