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
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
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
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
I feel incredibly fortunate I walked away, took care of other business, and then came back to show business. – 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
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
We had this neighbor who was an actor, and he was going to an audition one day, driving by our house, and he asked if I wanted to tag along. He was reading for the part of the father, and they were reading for the part of the son the same day, and he told me to sneak in there and make it look like I knew what I was doing. – Jason Bateman
I wasn’t really interested in doing anything except going from pilot season to pilot season and sowing my oats in the months between and telling my agency to stop sending me movie scripts, because they’d pile up in my house and make me feel guilty because I had to read them. – Jason Bateman
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 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. – Jason Bateman
A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it. – Jason Bateman
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. – Jason Bateman
I’d much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box. – 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
My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far. – Jason Bateman
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. – Jason Bateman
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
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
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
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. – Jason Bateman
