Jason Bateman Quotes
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I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
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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.
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If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it.
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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 owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.
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I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans.
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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 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'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.
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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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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 think things that are really, really not good are easy to see. But films that are decent can either be made good or great based on the execution. At the end of the day, it's always a crapshoot about the execution, the level of taste, in any department.
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My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very early.
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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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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.
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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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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 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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You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.
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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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Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.
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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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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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Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?