Jason Bateman Quotes
In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
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It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.
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Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
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I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
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I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
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It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.
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In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter.
