Jason Bateman Quotes
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I wanted to marry somebody who wasn't someone I had to be in any particular mood to want to be around - with close friends, you can be with them no matter what mood you're in.
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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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I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.
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Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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We had this neighbor who was an actor, and he was going to an audition one day, driving by our house, and he asked if I wanted to tag along. He was reading for the part of the father, and they were reading for the part of the son the same day, and he told me to sneak in there and make it look like I knew what I was doing.
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I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans.
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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 remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.
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I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.
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I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.
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It earns you a lot of snark if you're able to convey vulnerability.
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I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
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I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.
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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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Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.