Jason Bateman Quotes
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I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a really good snuggler, and she likes to give kisses and hugs.
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I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.
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My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what's good and what's not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing.
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If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.
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Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.
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Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.
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Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.
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People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.
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Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
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I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.
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It earns you a lot of snark if you're able to convey vulnerability.
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My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.
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My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.
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I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.
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I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.
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I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.
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It was like 'Risky Business' for 10 years. My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home.
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Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize 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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If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.
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If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.
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I'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.
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People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.
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I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans.
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That's kind of the fun part about acting. We do get the right to kind of get from A to Z any way we want, as long as we start at A and end at Z.