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
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.
In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter.
Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.
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.
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.
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 don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.
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.
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.
Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.
We had, like, the greatest time you could ever imagine doing 'Arrested Development.' And as grateful as we are for the careers we have afterwards, it was - we still miss it.
I think the Internet is a huge positive.
I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.
There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.
People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.
I have to warn you: I bet horses like a girl.
You want 100% and 100% to make 200, instead of 50 and 50 making 100.
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.
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.
The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it's asking me to draw on everything I've been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience.
I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans.
Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being.
I look at whatever the finish line is for the character and then kind of act backwards from that and play him in such a way so that that finish line is more rewarding.
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 think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.
There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.
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.'
It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.
I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.
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 enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.
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.
I can't assume that my kid is going to make the best decision all the time.
I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.
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.
I'm looking forward to playing Michael Bluth many, many more times.
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.
Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.
On the whole, a director who make the set a comfortable place to work is really important, whether it's a comedy or drama.
I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.
I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.
I'm never happier than in the bed.
I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends.
If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.
Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.
If you're stumbling out of a bar, and people tweet about it, well, don't be dumb. If you're going to get falling-down drunk, stay at home - which I did a lot of.
My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.
I wasn't really interested in doing anything except going from pilot season to pilot season and sowing my oats in the months between and telling my agency to stop sending me movie scripts, because they'd pile up in my house and make me feel guilty because I had to read them.
