Jason Bateman Quotes

Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.

Jason Bateman

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• Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Now
  • Africa
  • Cyber

• The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Dog
  • Win
  • Fight

• Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• I like excess. And giant M&M's.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Like
  • Excess
  • Giant

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Love
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• You've got to change with the public's taste.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • You
  • Change
  • Taste

• As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Know
  • Proud
  • Band

• In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Things
  • Language

• Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Always

• Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Women
  • Done
  • Choices

• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Learning

• You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Wise
  • Generation
  • Youth

• One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Career
  • Working
  • Blessings

• If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Think
  • Know
  • Now

• I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Happy
  • You
  • Sad

• It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Friends
  • Play
  • Couple

• I'd go for roles that would say 'for all ethnicities,' but what they're pretty much saying is, 'We want a Caucasian guy or a black guy.' One or the other.

  

  Bronson Pelletier
  • Guy
  • Pretty
  • Black

• My image lends itself a little bit more to the modern fan, sometimes more toward the kids, and I guess more toward the wine drinkers... I mean, I have my own wine, and fans love to pull for people they relate to.

  

  Jeff Gordon
  • People
  • Kids
  • Wine

• The first time I smoked weed was with Demi [Lovato] and Miley [Cyrus]. I must have been 17 or 18. They kept saying, ‘Try it! Try it!’ so I gave it a shot, and it was all right. I don’t even smoke weed that often anymore.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • First Time
  • Smoked
  • Try It

• I think that's really the beauty of life, like, we're this collection of moments, this collection of experiences that we've had, or little tics that we've stolen from other people, it's like we're this amalgamation of all of that.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Life
  • Think
  • Moments

• I walk away from jobs generally feeling good about it and that I've done a good job. And it's always slightly deflating when I see the film thing because it's still me up there.

  

  Kelly Macdonald
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.

  

  Jason Bateman