Jason Bateman Quotes
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I looked around at the relationships that were the longest in my life, and they were the ones I had with my friends. I thought, 'If I only wanted to get married once, I should probably marry a friend.'
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I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.
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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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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 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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Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.
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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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There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.
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My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.
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If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it.
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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 like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.
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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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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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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 really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.
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Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.
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Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.
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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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People still come up to me and say, 'Hey, 'Teen Wolf!' 'Teen Wolf Too' closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?
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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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People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.