Jason Bateman Quotes

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Jason Bateman

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 14, 1969

I've been fortunate, but I'm also not very precious about making sure I'm the star of a film.

Jason Bateman

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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As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.

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I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.

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I guess there's nothing funny about a guy who looks conservative and has it all together, but it's satisfying to see a conservative guy crumbling inside, and I think a lot of American comedy has cottoned on to that.

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It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.

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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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I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

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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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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'm not a big, huge star, and so when people see me, it's usually to talk about something I've done, and that's a great conversation to have. That's what we're doing it for.

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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 wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'

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I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.

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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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There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.

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I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.

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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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There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.

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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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