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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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
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The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
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If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.
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I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.
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Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.
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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.
