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Jason Bateman

"Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it."
Jason Bateman
About Just Swearing He
"By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy."
Jason Bateman
You Great Smart Gay
"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
Never Mother Like Reason
"In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter."
Jason Bateman
Work Good You Boss
"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."
Jason Bateman
Way Like Something Workaholic
"I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness."
Jason Bateman
Kindness People Weakness Worry
"I think the Internet is a huge positive."
Jason Bateman
Positive Internet Think I Think
"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."
Jason Bateman
Life Great Smoke My Life
"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."
Jason Bateman
Love Day Go Like
"Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor."
Jason Bateman
Violin Acting Just Being
"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
Youth Getting Never Anything
"I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again."
Jason Bateman
Job Everything Just Development
"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."
Jason Bateman
Job Try Through Going
"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."
Jason Bateman
Great Time Kids iPad
"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."
Jason Bateman
You Business Respect Quality
"Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being."
Jason Bateman
Life Best Me Wife
"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."
Jason Bateman
Family You Intelligence New
"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."
Jason Bateman
You People Want Attention
"My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle."
Jason Bateman
Humor Sense Of Humor Lies Sense
"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."
Jason Bateman
You Never Something Accomplish
"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
Good Like Just She
"The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies."
Jason Bateman
You People Community Think
"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."
Jason Bateman
Personality Age Way Identity
"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."
Jason Bateman
Birthday Never Remember Will
"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."
Jason Bateman
Doing Reading Development Opposite
"I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face."
Jason Bateman
Face Fat Big Evolve
"My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very early."
Jason Bateman
Me Mother She British
"I wanted to marry somebody who wasn't someone I had to be in any particular mood to want to be around - with close friends, you can be with them no matter what mood you're in."
Jason Bateman
You Matter Mood Want
"You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition."
Jason Bateman
You Time Sleep Job
"Marathons are good training goals."
Jason Bateman
Good Goals Training
"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
Best Business People City
"I have to warn you: I bet horses like a girl."
Jason Bateman
You Girl Like Bet
"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."
Jason Bateman
Funny Family Humor Mother
"As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist."
Jason Bateman
I Am Am Also Huge
"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
Love You Will Like
"People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy."
Jason Bateman
People Stupid Feel Will
"Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets."
Jason Bateman
Better Things Going Now
"I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well."
Jason Bateman
Time Hard Well Play
"Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button."
Jason Bateman
Chance Career Get Hit
"I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying."
Jason Bateman
Sports Just Team Growing Up
"I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title."
Jason Bateman
Fruit Name Three Small
"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."
Jason Bateman
Will End Know Done
"Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future."
Jason Bateman
Future Me Nothing Doing
"I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans."
Jason Bateman
Family Fans Lot Met
"If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it."
Jason Bateman
Good Good Movie Part Movie
"A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it."
Jason Bateman
You Important Something Comedy
"I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me."
Jason Bateman
Love Me Doing Gray
"If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people."
Jason Bateman
People Gay About Going
"Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch."
Jason Bateman
Old Right Things Couch

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