Jason Bateman Quotes
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Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.
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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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If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it.
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I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.
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I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans.
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I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.
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I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.
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Kids want you to take them to whatever kid movie is opening, and you just hope it's good because you're going to buy a ticket, no matter what. If it's no good, you kind of drape your arm over your kid so they don't get smashed, and you take a little nap.
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I've been fortunate, but I'm also not very precious about making sure I'm the star of a film.
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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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Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?
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I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.
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I try to figure out how much of the character I can find in myself because you don't want to get outside of your skill-set.
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Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.
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You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition.
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The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.
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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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Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.
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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.
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Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady - a normal, routine environment.
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It earns you a lot of snark if you're able to convey vulnerability.
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I try to see everything I do. It's a good learning tool for me. You kind of remember what you were going for when you were shooting it, and then see how it comes across in the context of what comes before and after it.
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I don't want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.
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If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.