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My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that...
JASON BATEMAN

Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at...
JASON BATEMAN

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it...
JASON BATEMAN

In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impre...
JASON BATEMAN

Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going ...
JASON BATEMAN

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic...
JASON BATEMAN

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a sa...
JASON BATEMAN

I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. M...
JASON BATEMAN

I think things that are really, really not good are easy to see. But films that are decent can eithe...
JASON BATEMAN

We had, like, the greatest time you could ever imagine doing 'Arrested Development.' And as ...
JASON BATEMAN

I was very surprised to get a reading for 'Arrested Development' because it really seemed to...
JASON BATEMAN

I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job aw...
JASON BATEMAN

It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,'...
JASON BATEMAN

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the ...
JASON BATEMAN

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

Kids want you to take them to whatever kid movie is opening, and you just hope it's good because...
JASON BATEMAN

Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script calle...
JASON BATEMAN

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

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

You hit those valleys sometimes and it's really frustrating. It's like getting stuck in traf...
JASON BATEMAN

I'm not a big, huge star, and so when people see me, it's usually to talk about something I&...
JASON BATEMAN

That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the...
JASON BATEMAN

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you...
JASON BATEMAN

My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very earl...
JASON BATEMAN

I wasn't really interested in doing anything except going from pilot season to pilot season and ...
JASON BATEMAN

Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium, so a lot of the time, when you'...
JASON BATEMAN

I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys ...
JASON BATEMAN

People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will ...
JASON BATEMAN

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantl...
JASON BATEMAN

I don't really find a problem with technology or television or anything. I'm a product of it...
JASON BATEMAN

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
JASON BATEMAN

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen i...
JASON BATEMAN

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to gr...
JASON BATEMAN

And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's mes...
JASON BATEMAN

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as ga...
JASON BATEMAN

People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be...
JASON BATEMAN

It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick arou...
JASON BATEMAN

[And rounding out the flick were newcomer Thomas Jane, who plays Diaz's love interest, and former te...
JASON BATEMAN

All in the Family.' I loved watching Carroll O'Connor play this despicable character and make him ...
JASON BATEMAN

Only one in every four people under 35 voted in the last election and Gore still won. So if we get m...
JASON BATEMAN

It was a great run and it's great that the network didn't cancel us outright, and they're letting us...
JASON BATEMAN

Everyone is pretty upbeat about it, actually, ... The last thing we wanted to happen was to overstay...
JASON BATEMAN Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountai...
ROBERT BATEMAN I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate... Before we can change direct...
ROBERT BATEMAN It seems to me so much technology could be applied to entertainment. Augmented reality, and even jus...
JUSTINE BATEMAN I think the most attractive people are the confident ones, regardless of their literal appearance, s...
JUSTINE BATEMAN When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I mig...
JUSTINE BATEMAN I'm a beer judge. I do this for fun.
ROBERT BATEMAN When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so in...
JUSTINE BATEMAN I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky...
JUSTINE BATEMAN The airport has been growing. The terminal already is too small in some respects.
BARRY BATEMAN I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it's 'God...
JUSTINE BATEMAN Overall, I think we can work together.
CURT BATEMAN When they finally got it shut down it was livable in there.
CURT BATEMAN I went outside and that's when the smell hit me.
CURT BATEMAN I was sitting in my office at about 9:30 a.m. and I heard this rushing sound.
CURT BATEMAN There is a moment of sheer panic when I realize that Paul's apartment overlooks the park... and is o...
PATRICK BATEMAN I see a lot of women around me who seem to stop developing as individuals after marriage and childre...
JUSTINE BATEMAN Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.
JUSTINE BATEMAN Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is th...
JASON REITMAN Funny enough, there have been puppets in everything I've written because I have a huge love of p...
JASON SEGEL

A lot of people underestimate rest, especially sleeping and recovery time.
JASON DAY

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology...
JASON SILVA

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch w...
JASON SUDEIKIS My dad, he worries a bit, usually with good reason. There were quite a few years there where he was ...
JASON ISBELL Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unb...
JASON SEGEL We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.
JASON WU There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have arti...
JASON ALDEAN

If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruc...
JASON STATHAM

I'm a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I'd want ...
JASON STATHAM

Bruce Lee was just so lightning-fast. People try to emulate him in whatever way they can, but to try...
JASON STATHAM

The Rock is the Rock, you know? He's the ultimate athlete, the professional man with precision. ...
JASON STATHAM In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents wil...
JASON SCHWARTZMAN When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in t...
JASON WILES

As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm stil...
JASON DAY

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain tha...
JASON MRAZ

It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't kn...
JASON KIDD

If you could taste words, most corporate websites, brochures, and sales materials would remind you o...
JASON FRIED There is a little chubby kid in me just waiting to bust out. I usually go running but am looking for...
JASON EARLES

I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over r...
JASON NEWSTED I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arro...
JASON SEGEL

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
JASON STATHAM

That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural ...
JASON FRIED

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little proj...
JASON STATHAM

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the ...
JASON CHAFFETZ

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the s...
JASON MRAZ I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and peopl...
JASON SCHWARTZMAN

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
JASON FRIED I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a...
JASON REITMAN Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie B...
JASON SEGEL Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. ...
JASON BEGHE You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're argui...
JASON KATIMS When we blaze trails, which is what Hulu is about, it takes time. That is not for the faint of heart...
JASON KILAR

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones whe...
JASON SILVA

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all ...
JASON ISAACS

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
JASON KIDD

If a man does his best, what else is there?
JASON KIDD

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of know...
JASON KIDD Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.
JASON CHAMBERLAIN Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greate...
JASON CALACANIS Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and th...
JASON EPSTEIN

Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you...
JASON MRAZ

I won't give up on us
JASON MRAZ

If you don't believe in the things you're doing, the answer isn't fooling yourself into thinking you...
JASON MYERS

There are so many attention whores out there, prostituting for people's acknowledgment
JASON MYERS

A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you ...
JASON LAUMARK To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.
JASON CHAMBERLAIN

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
JASON KIDD

It's always too early to quit.
JASON KIDD

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
JASON KIDD

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or...
JASON KIDD

You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We ...
JASON FRIED

I am a huge fan of Adrian Piper: how she works, how she reveals her process in the work, how she wri...
JASON MORAN

High risk is high adrenaline.
JASON STATHAM Nearly 30 million people ride Amtrak each year, and they should board the trains knowing that safety...
JASON CHAFFETZ The time has come for President Obama to formally rescind his order to close the detention facility ...
JASON CHAFFETZ

I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for am...
JASON SILVA The 'Night Train' has already been a crazy ride for me. We flew around making TV appearances...
JASON ALDEAN I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.
JASON MARSDEN I did a couple of American Express commercials.
JASON DOHRING I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't ...
JASON O'MARA

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'...
JASON MRAZ

I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film...
JASON SILVA I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm...
JASON O'MARA Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.
JASON CALACANIS

Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really abl...
JASON MORAN

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
JASON STATHAM

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good w...
JASON STATHAM

I'm sure everyone that has ever done an action movie has just drooled over how full of talent Br...
JASON STATHAM

At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car cha...
JASON STATHAM

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left ...
JASON MRAZ

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.
JASON ISAACS

While the whole 'God Butcher Saga' had elements of fantasy, sci-fi and horror all mixed toge...
JASON AARON

Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to h...
JASON SUDEIKIS

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka ...
JASON SILVA

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself ...
JASON MRAZ

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn...
JASON MRAZ

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
JASON SILVA We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and buil...
JASON KILAR I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people maki...
JASON KATIMS

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.
JASON RITTER

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.
JASON RITTER

Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.
JASON DAY

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unex...
JASON SILVA

We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.
JASON FRIED

Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly ...
JASON FRIED

A lot of people relate leadership to formalities. They believe that leadership is about being profes...
JASON FRIED

I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy.
JASON STATHAM As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.
JASON ISBELL

If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3...
JASON STATHAM

For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that...
JASON SILVA

I eat a lot. I'm a big sandwich dude. Turkey, mayonnaise, mustard, cheese, yes. I love craft ser...
JASON MITCHELL

I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.
JASON STATHAM

Whatever you do, do it to the extreme.
JASON STATHAM

Take a martial art or a sport, something that gives you a skill, engages the body, and allows you th...
JASON STATHAM

I love to get behind the wheel and get competitive.
JASON STATHAM

The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.
JASON STATHAM

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercis...
JASON STATHAM

I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach.
JASON STATHAM

All of the stunt men - these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credi...
JASON STATHAM

I don't go in for the high-end gyms with the high-tech equipment and all the fancy stuff.
JASON STATHAM

I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.
JASON STATHAM

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's need...
JASON STATHAM

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone&...
JASON STATHAM

I've just got a really bad smile. I go for the scowl instead.
JASON STATHAM

You should never assume about someone.
JASON STATHAM

I'm naturally a protective person to those close to me.
JASON STATHAM

The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do ot...
JASON STATHAM

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never ma...
JASON STATHAM

The most frustrating thing about injuries is that they take so bloody long to heal.
JASON STATHAM

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.
JASON STATHAM

Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go.
JASON STATHAM

How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much h...
JASON STATHAM

If you're going to do something, do it with style!
JASON STATHAM

I love getting dressed up in a suit because I don't do it all the time.
JASON STATHAM

Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrit...
JASON STATHAM

Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay ...
JASON SILVA

It's easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don't get the wide view, not only does...
JASON FRIED

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don...
JASON RITTER

The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something ...
JASON RITTER

I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I'm not ...
JASON RITTER

I love doing television.
JASON RITTER

I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and t...
JASON RITTER

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me...
JASON RITTER

A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect ...
JASON RITTER

I've certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don't know if it's because ther...
JASON RITTER

One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet abo...
JASON RITTER

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
JASON RITTER

I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.
JASON RITTER

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.
JASON RITTER

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they ...
JASON RITTER

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a wh...
JASON RITTER

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they'...
JASON RITTER

I'm a bit too much of a people pleaser and that can be frustrating for people in your life.
JASON RITTER

I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the ...
JASON RITTER

I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more c...
JASON RITTER

I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.
JASON RITTER

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the...
JASON RITTER

I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to pl...
JASON RITTER

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

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