Jason Bateman Quotes
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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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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 feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.
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Marathons are good training goals.
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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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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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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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Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.
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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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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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Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium, so a lot of the time, when you're directing a television show, they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined, and you just kind of have to follow the rules.
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I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.
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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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I didn't really watch 'Beavis & Butt-head' that much or 'King of the Hill,' but I was a huge 'Office Space' fan.
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I can't assume that my kid is going to make the best decision all the time.
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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 was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.
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I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.
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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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Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.
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I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.
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It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.
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My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.