Jason Bateman Quotes:- Jason Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor, director, and producer. He began acting on television in the early 1980s on Little House on the Prairie, Silver Spoons, and The Hogan Family.
In the 2000s, he became known for his role as Michael Bluth using deadpan comedy in the sitcom Arrested Development, for which he won a Golden Globe and a Satellite Award.
Inspirational Jason Bateman Quotes And Sayings
“I think I’m actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I’m not a one-man band.”-Jason Bateman
“If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it’s as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.”-Jason Bateman
“Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.”-Jason Bateman
“I don’t feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.”-Jason Bateman
“If it’s a good part in a good movie, I’ll do it.”-Jason Bateman
“I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.”-Jason Bateman
“I just love doing sitcoms. I’d be in them till I was gray if they’d have me.”-Jason Bateman
“Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch.”-Jason Bateman
“People have often asked if I’m gay because I don’t go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.”-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
“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
Insightful Jason Bateman Quotes
“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
“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
“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
“I have to warn you: I bet horses like a girl.”-Jason Bateman
“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
“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 think anybody who’s doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you’re a teen idol by default.”-Jason Bateman
“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
“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.”-Jason Bateman
“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
“I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.”-Jason Bateman
Quotes from Jason Bateman movies and TV shows
“Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?”-Jason Bateman
“My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.”-Jason Bateman
“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
“I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business.”-Jason Bateman
“Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I’m acting.”-Jason Bateman
“People still come up to me and say, ‘Hey, ‘Teen Wolf!’ ‘Teen Wolf Too’ closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?”-Jason Bateman
“It earns you a lot of snark if you’re able to convey vulnerability.”-Jason Bateman
“I’ve been fortunate, but I’m also not very precious about making sure I’m the star of a film.”-Jason Bateman
“As disciplined as I am, I’m also a huge hedonist.”-Jason Bateman
“I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible for how much you use it.”-Jason Bateman
“It’s very difficult to pretend you’re throwing a car.”-Jason Bateman
“I think it’s always a good time to be in a political film in America because there’s so much material for comedy.”-Jason Bateman
Famous Jason Bateman Quotes
“Our kids will never have to remember things because it’s all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There’ll be a video of it on your phone.”-Jason Bateman
“I’d much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.”-Jason Bateman
“My mother is British; she’s from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto ‘Monty Python’ very early.”-Jason Bateman
“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 onset or a visual style and dynamic that’s already been predetermined, and you just kind of have to follow the rules.”-Jason Bateman
“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.”-Jason Bateman
“I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.”-Jason Bateman
“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.”-Jason Bateman
“There’s a bunch of different flavors of funny. It’s all about the execution of it.”-Jason Bateman
“I’m just going to try to stay employed. That’s the tough part of this business.”-Jason Bateman
“I didn’t really watch ‘Beavis & Butt-head’ that much or ‘King of the Hill,’ but I was a huge ‘Office Space’ fan.”-Jason Bateman
Great Jason Bateman Quotes And Sayings
“There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.”-Jason Bateman
“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.”-Jason Bateman
“I’m not that great of an actor, so I can’t, like, completely become somebody else.”-Jason Bateman
“I can’t assume that my kid is going to make the best decision all the time.”-Jason Bateman
“Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.”-Jason Bateman
“Ideally, that’s what you’ve got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.”-Jason Bateman
“People say: ‘Why do you want to play the straight man?’ Well, it’s because he gets to be in every scene.”-Jason Bateman
“It’s not about the script: it’s about who the director is and who the other people in the cast are. Because you can look at a great script and execute it in a very sophomoric way, and you can look at an OK script, and you can execute it in a very sophisticated way and come out with something really good.”-Jason Bateman
“When you’re playing a supporting character, you don’t really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.”-Jason Bateman
“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.”-Jason Bateman
“I think the Internet is a huge positive.”-Jason Bateman
Best Jason Bateman Quotes
“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.”-Jason Bateman
“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
“I really empathize 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.”-Jason Bateman
“I’m never happier than in bed.”-Jason Bateman
“I’m not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.”-Jason Bateman
“I was doing everything that a kid would be doing anyway, but on top of that, I was able to fly to different cities.”-Jason Bateman
“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.”-Jason Bateman
“If you make a mistake, people are going to know about it really fast – and I was making a ton of them when I was a kid.”-Jason Bateman
“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
Top 10 Jason Bateman Quotes
“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.'”-Jason Bateman
“I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.”-Jason Bateman
“That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don’t play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.”-Jason Bateman
“You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.”-Jason Bateman
“That’s kind of the fun part about acting. We do get the right to kind of get from A to Z any way we want, as long as we start at A and end at Z.”-Jason Bateman
“I haven’t met a lot of ‘Hogan Family’ fans.”-Jason Bateman
“My upbringing as a child was very atypical.”-Jason Bateman
“Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.”-Jason Bateman
“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
“I’m looking forward to playing Michael Bluth many, many more times.”-Jason Bateman
“The people at Netflix are extremely intelligent about the way they monitor activity on their platform.”-Jason Bateman
“I enjoy editing when I’m directing, but when someone else is directing, that’s their film to cut.”-Jason Bateman
