Jason Bateman Quotes
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I'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.
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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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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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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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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 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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There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.
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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 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.
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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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It earns you a lot of snark if you're able to convey vulnerability.
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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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There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.
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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.
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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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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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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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When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.
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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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As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.
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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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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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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.
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My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.