Quotes About Jason Bateman

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.

It earns you a lot of snark if you're able to convey vulnerability.

I have to warn you: I bet horses like a girl.

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

My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.

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

I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.

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

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

I think NBC got a little reluctant to get behind single-camera shows after 'Scrubs' didn't do what they thought it was going to do following 'Friends.'

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.