American - Actor | January 14, 1969 -
I'm a pretty normal guy. I'm really good at knowing how a normal guy would react in situations.
Jason Bateman
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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.
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You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.
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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.
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You hit those valleys sometimes and it's really frustrating. It's like getting stuck in traffic on the freeway. But there's not much you can do about it.
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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.
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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.
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I don't want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.
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I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans.
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My upbringing as a child was very atypical.
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Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.
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To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.
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