The multifaceted Jason Bateman has proved his prowess not just in acting but also in direction and film production. An accidental actor, he started acting at the age of 10 when he accompanied a friend for an audition and was selected for the lead role instead. At the age of 18 , he directed three episode of ‘Valerie’ thereby becoming DGA's youngest-ever director. As funny as he acts in his movies he is known for his impeccable sense of humor in real life too. We have compiled a list of Bateman’s quotes from his interviews and writings. Have look at some of his most amusing quotes on jobs, communication, technology, comedy, love, and marriage.
I'm a guy who is a little bit complicated and is a little bit in his own head and is not the most free-spirited, fun-loving kind of guy.
Jason Bateman
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
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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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
I'm in bed by nine. Let's get on with it.
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If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.
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I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.
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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
I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could.
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I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.
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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'm not a 'celebrity'. 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.
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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.
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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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I'm not a Hollywood party guy.
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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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My hobbies have varied over the years. There were a whole set of new ones before I got married. Now I spend as much time with my wife, who is my best friend.
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I actually enjoyed changing diapers and I enjoyed swaddling. I don't mind being swaddled either, on occasion.
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I can be on a telephone call, and be emailing or texting somebody else, as well. I would imagine everyone appreciates that efficiency of communication. I see it as a huge positive.
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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.
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I'm not much of a party guy anymore.
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I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.
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What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you can only work until the production wraps. Then you have to find another job.
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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 a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.
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Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.
I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.
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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.
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.
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.
To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.
I don't want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.
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Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.
You hit those valleys sometimes and it's really frustrating. It's like getting stuck in traffic on the freeway. But there's not much you can do about it.
I think NBC got a little reluctant to get behind single-camera shows after 'Scrubs' didn't do what they thought it was going to do following 'Friends.'
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.
I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.
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The kids can't watch 'The Wire,' but there's great educational stuff for them to watch on TV if it is TV time. There are great apps on the iPad that are interactive and educational.
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.
My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what's good and what's not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing.
I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.
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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'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.
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.
I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.
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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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I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.
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.
I looked around at the relationships that were the longest in my life, and they were the ones I had with my friends. I thought, 'If I only wanted to get married once, I should probably marry a friend.'
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.
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It was like 'Risky Business' for 10 years. My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home.
I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends.
Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.
Jason Bateman
I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.
Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.
Jason Bateman
Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady - a normal, routine environment.
