Jason Bateman Quotes

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.

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

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.

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 think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

Marathons are good training goals.

I actually enjoyed changing diapers and I enjoyed swaddling. I don't mind being swaddled either, on occasion.

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.

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 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.

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 really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

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.

I'm not a Hollywood party guy.

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.

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.

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

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'm not much of a party guy anymore.

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

I think the Internet is a huge positive.

I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

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.

I have to warn you: I bet horses like a girl.

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

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.

I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.

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.

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.

Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I like being hired to do more and more stuff. Carry more and more responsibility. It's nice I'm getting that trust.

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.

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'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.

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?

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.

I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.

My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.

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.

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.