Jason Bateman Quotes
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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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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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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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I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.
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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 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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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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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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Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.
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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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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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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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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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As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.
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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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Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.
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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 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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Marathons are good training goals.
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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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It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.
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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.