Jason Bateman Quotes

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Jason Bateman

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 14, 1969

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 really appreciate comedy a lot.

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I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.

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I'm looking forward to playing Michael Bluth many, many more times.

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The people at Netflix are extremely intelligent about the way they monitor activity on their platform.

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Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium.

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I was very surprised to get a reading for 'Arrested Development' because it really seemed to be the opposite of that which I was known for doing.

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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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We had, like, the greatest time you could ever imagine doing 'Arrested Development.' And as grateful as we are for the careers we have afterwards, it was - we still miss it.

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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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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 really like dramas that have a tone of comedy in them or the opposite, and those are done by people like Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman but also Spike Jonze and David O. Russell and Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers.

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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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