Quotes from Jason Bateman

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.

It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.

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.

Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.

There's this little recipe that you have to hit pretty well to get somebody to laugh. And it's a combination of the way in which you say something, with the facial expression that you have, married with the body language that you have, etc.

Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.

I'm never happier than in the bed.

Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.

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

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.

Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize 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.

You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition.

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

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

If you make a mistake, people are going to know about it really fast - and I was making a ton of them when I was a kid.

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.

I try to see everything I do. It's a good learning tool for me. You kind of remember what you were going for when you were shooting it, and then see how it comes across in the context of what comes before and after 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.

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

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could.

I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.