Top 136 Quotes by Jason Bateman

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.

I've been fortunate, but I'm also not very precious about making sure I'm the star of a film.

People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.

My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very early.

Marathons are good training goals.

You want 100% and 100% to make 200, instead of 50 and 50 making 100.

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.

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.

Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch.