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 did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.
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I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
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There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.
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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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I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.
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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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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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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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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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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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On the whole, a director who make the set a comfortable place to work is really important, whether it's a comedy or drama.
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I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.
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Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.
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If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it.
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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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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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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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Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.
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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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People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.
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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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I'm a pretty normal guy. I'm really good at knowing how a normal guy would react in situations.