Jason Bateman Quotes
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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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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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I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.
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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 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 feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.
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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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Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.
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Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.
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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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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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I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
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I'm a pretty normal guy. I'm really good at knowing how a normal guy would react in situations.
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Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone.
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It's not about the script: it's about who the director is and who the other people in the cast are. Because you can look at a great script and execute it in a very sophomoric way, and you can look at an OK script, and you can execute it in a very sophisticated way and come out with something really good.
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As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.
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It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.
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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.
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I wasn't really interested in doing anything except going from pilot season to pilot season and sowing my oats in the months between and telling my agency to stop sending me movie scripts, because they'd pile up in my house and make me feel guilty because I had to read them.
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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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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.
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Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.
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It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.
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Marathons are good training goals.