151 Insightful Jason Bateman Quotes
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm in bed by nine. Let's get on with it.
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.
I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.
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.
I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could.
I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.
I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not a Hollywood party guy.
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.
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.
I actually enjoyed changing diapers and I enjoyed swaddling. I don't mind being swaddled either, on occasion.
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.
I like being hired to do more and more stuff. Carry more and more responsibility. It's nice I'm getting that trust.
I'm not much of a party guy anymore.
I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.
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.
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.
It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.
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.
On the whole, a director who make the set a comfortable place to work is really important, whether it's a comedy or drama.
Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.
I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.
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.
