191 Quotes by Jason Bateman

If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'

I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.

I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.

There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.

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

I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.

I didn't really watch 'Beavis & Butt-head' that much or 'King of the Hill,' but I was a huge 'Office Space' fan.

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.