Top 136 Quotes by 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.

I was doing everything that a kid would be doing anyway, but on top of that, I was able to fly to different cities.

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.

That's kind of the fun part about acting. We do get the right to kind of get from A to Z any way we want, as long as we start at A and end at Z.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

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

I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.

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

When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.