Jason Bateman Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Vanilla, Normal, Life Is

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• I like being hired to do more and more stuff. Carry more and more responsibility. It's nice I'm getting that trust.

  Jason Bateman

  Nice, Responsibility, Stuff

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2009.

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• I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Technology

  "Jason Bateman Talks Disconnect, Cyber-Bullying, His Feelings about Technology, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play. I get that. And I don't shy away from those parts.

  Jason Bateman

  Thinking, Play, People

  "Emmys Q&A: Jason Bateman". "AwardsLine" with Anthony D'Alessandro, deadline.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

  Jason Bateman

  Jobs, Guy, World

  "‘Bad Words’ Set Interview: Jason Bateman Talks Directing". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. March 6, 2014.

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• I've always felt bad that I never had more information to give people when they asked me about it, but I guess people kind of got frustrated by that and they just started kind of making up their own sort of "well, we haven't heard that much" or "news hasn't changed so it must be going away".

  Jason Bateman

  People, Giving, Frustrated

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2009.

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• I think the internet is a huge positive.

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  Thinking, Internet, Huge

  "Jason Bateman Talks Disconnect, Cyber-Bullying, His Feelings about Technology, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.

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

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  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 2, 2009.

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• When you know your mom and dad are doing things that are not idyllic, as far as your desire to defer to a parental ideal, you start to see your parents as peers, perhaps, and that's not the healthiest thing at that early an age.

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  Mom, Dad, Parent

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We're just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.

  Jason Bateman

  Doors, Ideas, Waiting

  "Jason Bateman Talks Making His Feature Directorial Debut, Why He Chose This Script, Shooting Digitally, and More on the Set of Bad Words". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

  Jason Bateman

  People, Waste, Cameras

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• As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.

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  Choices, Different, Actors

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• As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex and challenging and I love it. I'm sort of a glutton for work and to direct something that I'm acting in feeds the vein.

  Jason Bateman

  Challenges, Acting, Directors

  "Toronto: Jason Bateman on Talks Directing Himself in ‘The Family Fang’" by Kathy A. Mcdonald, variety.com. September 11, 2015.

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• I don't get a chance to cry that often on film, so I was hoping that talent would come my way, that day. I cheated, I guess, when I just started looking at my technology device - my iPhone - to look at pictures of my kids, before I did the scene where I had to cry. That was a good trick that I found.

  Jason Bateman

  Kids, Technology, Iphone

  "Jason Bateman Talks Disconnect, Cyber-Bullying, His Feelings about Technology, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

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  Acting, Orchestra, Violin

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• I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

  Jason Bateman

  Garden, Play, Tree

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• I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

  Jason Bateman

  Mean, Hands, Arms

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• Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.

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  Strong, Guy, Done

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• I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

  Jason Bateman

  Gay, Cities, People

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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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  Writing, Work Out, Messages

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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.

  Jason Bateman

  Guy, Watches, Half

  "Career Watch: Jason Bateman Gets Down with his ‘Bad’ Self" by Susan Wloszczyna, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2014.

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• I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a really good snuggler, and she likes to give kisses and hugs.

  Jason Bateman

  Kids, Kissing, Giving

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• I have to warn you: I bet horses like a girl.

  Jason Bateman

  Girl, Horse

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• I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.

  Jason Bateman

  Mother, Fans, Mail

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• Our job, as actors, is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing. If it's a situation where the character should look a little bit out of control or do something stupid, it's your job to act into that, in a believable way.

  Jason Bateman

  Jobs, Stupid, Character

  "Jason Bateman Talks Disconnect, Cyber-Bullying, His Feelings about Technology, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.

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