Top 100 Bateman Quotes
#1. And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to and never felt any pressure to reach a decision.
LaVell Edwards
#2. You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, "I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know.
Stephen King
#3. I have to say ... Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever.
Ron Eldard
#4. My rookie is manly, so manly, oh so manly his name is Derrick Bateman.
Daniel Bryan
#6. The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.
Will Arnett
#7. I have a tradition of working with actors, over and over again. I've worked with Jason Bateman, over and over again. You get to know an actor, and you get a certain trust and a comfort, and you become really good friends, and you feel like you've got a short-hand.
Peter Berg
#8. Don't tell me he was another serial killer, Bateman. Not another serial killer." "No, McDufus, he wasn't a serial killer,
Bret Easton Ellis
#9. From listening in on these chicks wax rhapsodic over these brothers, if they were anything less than Nick Bateman clones, well, then I'd be highly disappointed.
Harper Bentley
#10. He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome ... Jason Bateman
Neil Patrick Harris
#11. I certainly liked performing [Patrick Bateman], but it was because he thinks he's so [bloody] cool and just the [stuff], but is really such a cheesy dork.
Christian Bale
#12. 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.
Jason Bateman
#13. I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.
Sonya Bateman
#14. Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?
Justine Bateman
#15. 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.
Jason Bateman
#16. After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.
Robert Bateman
#17. 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.
Jason Bateman
#18. He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed with him. I was the type of man women said they hated, and then they went home.
Colin Bateman
#19. Just as the lame man at the pool of Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John5:1-9), so we are dependent on the miracles of Christ's atonement if our souls are to be made whole from grief, sorrow, and sin
Merrill J. Bateman
#20. Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.
Jason Bateman
#21. 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.
Jason Bateman
#22. As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.
Jason Bateman
#25. Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married.
Because trying to fuck you is like trying to french-kiss a very ... small and ... lively gerbil? With braces?
Bret Easton Ellis
#26. 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.
Jason Bateman
#27. But that's the thing about truth - even when you think you know it, it can still sneak up behind you and knock you down.
Rachel Bateman
#28. I like being hired to do more and more stuff. Carry more and more responsibility. It's nice I'm getting that trust.
Jason Bateman
#29. I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.
Justine Bateman
#30. 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.
Jason Bateman
#31. I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.
Jason Bateman
#32. 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.
Jason Bateman
#33. I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.
Jason Bateman
#34. You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names ... If you don't know the names of plant and animal species that share your neighbourhood, you don't care about them and can't protect biodiversity.
Robert Bateman
#35. There's an awful lot of choices in the world as far as what one can do for a living. It's best to be familiar with as many sectors of the working world as you can be so you'll be better at your creative job anyway.
Justine Bateman
#36. Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.
Robert Bateman
#37. Students frequently misbehave because they (1) want and need attention from adults and peers, (2) are trying to avoid a difficult or unpleasant task (too difficult, too easy, too boring), or (3) for some older students, revenge.
Barbara D. Bateman
#38. Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.
Merrill J. Bateman
#39. When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.
Robert Bateman
#40. If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.
Robert Bateman
#41. If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do ... Nature is magic.
Robert Bateman
#42. I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it's like, 'blah, blah, blah,' oh there's the information I need, and then 'blah, blah, blah,' right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.
Justine Bateman
#43. Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.
Robert Bateman
#44. Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady - a normal, routine environment.
Jason Bateman
#45. A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.
Jason Bateman
#46. If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light.
But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.
Colin Bateman
#47. I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.
Jason Bateman
#48. It seems to me so much technology could be applied to entertainment. Augmented reality, and even just the iPad - touch-screen technology, it was, you know, it still is extremely underused by entertainment.
Justine Bateman
#49. When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.
Justine Bateman
#50. I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
Bret Easton Ellis
#51. I'd be counting calories in my head while having conversations and doing crosswords.
Justine Bateman
#52. The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.
Jason Bateman
#53. Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.
Jason Bateman
#54. 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.
Jason Bateman
#55. Serial Killer Week got off to an inauspicious start when the opening wine and bean evening was invaded by a former prisoner who misinterpreted the poster, but he was at least able to give us the professional's view of the genre.
Colin Bateman
#56. The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?
Robert Bateman
#57. Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch.
Jason Bateman
#58. A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead.
Robert Bateman
#59. Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well ... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.
Jason Bateman
#60. 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.
Jason Bateman
#61. 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.
Jason Bateman
#62. They couldn't wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.
Justine Bateman
#63. I've never liked spending a lot of time on beauty stuff. I have two eye pencils that I use, and that's it.
Justine Bateman
#64. People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.
Jason Bateman
#65. I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.
Robert Bateman
#66. When you're actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We're just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.
Jason Bateman
#67. I absolutely love '30 Rock' and 'The Office,' but I don't know how many 13-year-olds are watching that stuff.
Justine Bateman
#68. By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.
Jason Bateman
#69. In our instant pudding world, everything is sweet, smooth, very convenient and fast. There are lots of assorted flavors, but they're all artificial.
Robert Bateman
#70. I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'
Justine Bateman
#71. Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.
Justine Bateman
#72. I realized I was an anorexic, a bulimic, and a compulsive overeater.
Justine Bateman
#73. I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.
Justine Bateman
#74. My comedic instinct, is a little bit more rooted in - my mother's British so I've always been more of the dry receiver of the crazy as opposed to the initiator of the crazy. I'm kind of predisposed to be the straight man.
Jason Bateman
#75. 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. If it's a situation where the character should look a little bit out of control or do something stupid, it's your job to act into that, in a believable way.
Jason Bateman
#76. Cinderella never had it so good. All she got was a lousy coach and breakable shoes.
Sonya Bateman
#77. I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play. I get that. And I don't shy away from those parts.
Jason Bateman
#78. I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.
Jason Bateman
#79. I tried to speak, to tell Kit I wasn't dead. No sound came out. But I managed to lift one arm a few inches and execute a tiny wave. Hello, still alive. In a fuck ton of pain, but not dead.
Sonya Bateman
#80. A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.
Justine Bateman
#81. I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
Jason Bateman
#83. 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.
Jason Bateman
#84. To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.
Robert Bateman
#85. I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.
Jason Bateman
#86. It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.
Robert Bateman
#87. I prefer to hike in nature, give lectures, or be with family when not working.
Robert Bateman
#88. I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.
Jason Bateman
#89. I actually enjoyed changing diapers and I enjoyed swaddling. I don't mind being swaddled either, on occasion.
Jason Bateman
#90. The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.
Jason Bateman
#91. I'm picky about skin care because I hate perfumes or anything that says 'It will take away all the lines on your face.' I don't want to do that. But I do use Kiehl's and this skin cream called Restorsea because it makes my skin look nice and feel soft.
Justine Bateman
#92. Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.
Colin Bateman
#93. I've never been interested in changing my face. I hear of those glycolic peels and the Botox and plastic surgeries, and I am just, like, 'Oh my God.' I just could never do that.
Justine Bateman
#94. My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people!
Robert Bateman
#95. The atonement was an intimate, personal experience in which Jesus came to know how to help each of us.
Merrill J. Bateman
#96. But there were certain incentives for slaves who showed loyalty to their masters, even if it meant betraying another slave.
Tracey Bateman
#97. I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.
Jason Bateman
#98. I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.
Justine Bateman
#99. I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
Bret Easton Ellis
#100. Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.
Jason Bateman
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