Jason Bateman Quotes

Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch.

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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Small
  • Day

• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Have
  • Ugliness

• You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Politics

• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Reality
  • You
  • Find

• I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Energy
  • Air
  • Goal

• I feel great physically. I feel really good.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Feel

• To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Work
  • Live
  • Die

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Speak
  • Actor
  • Rare

• I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • War
  • Death
  • Know

• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Humility

• I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Violence

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Taken
  • Attitude

• I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Want
  • Know
  • Religion

• I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Good
  • Food

• I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• I started to play the guitar for a couple of years, which was fun. I still bring it out once in a while, could bust out a couple of songs, but I'm not very good at it.

  

  Dirk Nowitzki
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Couple

• I only learned about Darger a couple years ago, when I kept seeing his name in reference to my artwork, so I looked him up. I wouldn't consider him an influence because I'd already established my current style before learning about him, but I enjoy his work a lot.

  

  Marcel Dzama
  • Up
  • Work
  • Learning

• I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Couple

• Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Couple