Jason Bateman Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It earns you a lot of snark if you're able to convey vulnerability.
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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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My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.
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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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I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.
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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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Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
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I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.
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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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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 don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.
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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 enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.
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I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans.
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There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.
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To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.
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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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I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.
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Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium.