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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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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If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.
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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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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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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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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 freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.
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It earns you a lot of snark if you're able to convey vulnerability.
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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 don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.
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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'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.
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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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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'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.
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My upbringing as a child was very atypical.
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I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans.
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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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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 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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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.