Jason Bateman Quotes
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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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Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.
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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 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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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.
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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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Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.
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It was a blast. I was doing everything that teenagers do and everything people in their twenties do. I was playing as hard as I was working, which was an effort to really balance my life.
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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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There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.
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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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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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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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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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There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.
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I think the Internet is a huge positive.
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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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I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.
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I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.
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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.
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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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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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I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.
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My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.