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As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.
Jason Bateman -
To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.
Jason Bateman
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There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.
Jason Bateman -
I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.
Jason Bateman -
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.
Jason Bateman -
I look at whatever the finish line is for the character and then kind of act backwards from that and play him in such a way so that that finish line is more rewarding.
Jason Bateman -
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.
Jason Bateman -
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.
Jason Bateman
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It earns you a lot of snark if you're able to convey vulnerability.
Jason Bateman -
I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.
Jason Bateman -
There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.
Jason Bateman -
When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.
Jason Bateman -
It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.
Jason Bateman -
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.
Jason Bateman
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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.
Jason Bateman -
There's this little recipe that you have to hit pretty well to get somebody to laugh. And it's a combination of the way in which you say something, with the facial expression that you have, married with the body language that you have, etc.
Jason Bateman -
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.'
Jason Bateman -
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.
Jason Bateman -
I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.
Jason Bateman -
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.
Jason Bateman
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Marathons are good training goals.
Jason Bateman -
I'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.
Jason Bateman -
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?
Jason Bateman -
I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.
Jason Bateman