Latest Jason Bateman Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Jason Bateman

  Mom, Dad, Parent

  Source: collider.com

• I'm in bed by nine. Let's get on with it.

  Jason Bateman

  Bed, Nine

  Source: screenrant.com

• I'm not much of a party guy anymore.

  Jason Bateman

  Party, Guy

  Source: screenrant.com

• I'm not a Hollywood party guy.

  Jason Bateman

  Party, Guy, Hollywood

  Source: screenrant.com

• 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.

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

  Jason Bateman

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

• 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.

• 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.

• It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.

  Jason Bateman

  Comforting, Soldier, Trying

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

• 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.

• 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.

  Jason Bateman

  Stars, People, Done

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

• 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.

• 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.

  Jason Bateman

  Jobs, Hard Work, Phones

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

• 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.

• 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.

  Jason Bateman

  Choices, Different, Actors

• 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

• 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

  Fun, Guy, Littles

• I think the internet is a huge positive.

  Jason Bateman

  Thinking, Internet, Huge

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

• 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.

  Jason Bateman

  Communication, Appreciate, Texting

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

• 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

  Crazy, Thinking, Technology

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

• 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.

• 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.

• The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.

  Jason Bateman

  Jobs, Interesting, Everyday

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

• I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility because the medium is very much a director's medium. 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 on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined and you just kind of have to follow the rules.

  Jason Bateman

  Responsibility, Color, Style

  "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.

• My comedic instinct, is a little bit more rooted in - my mother's British so I've always been more of the dry receiver of the crazy as opposed to the initiator of the crazy. I'm kind of predisposed to be the straight man.

  Jason Bateman

  Mother, Crazy, Men

  "Jason Bateman Talks Horrible Bosses 2, The Family Fang, What He Learned Directing Bad Words, Ipo Man, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 25, 2014.