191 Quotes by Jason Bateman

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

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.

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.

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

I’m in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven’t had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I’ve been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

And I’ve always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand’s message into the writing process. It’s like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.

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