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I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.
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I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans.
Jason Bateman
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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'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 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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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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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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Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.
Jason Bateman
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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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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.
Jason Bateman -
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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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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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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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.
Jason Bateman
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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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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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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.
Jason Bateman -
Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.
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And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.
Jason Bateman -
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.
Jason Bateman
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If you're stumbling out of a bar, and people tweet about it, well, don't be dumb. If you're going to get falling-down drunk, stay at home - which I did a lot of.
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Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.
Jason Bateman -
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.
Jason Bateman -
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.
Jason Bateman