Jason Bateman Quotes

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.

While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.

There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.

It's about balance. Do a movie that's good for your career, then do a one that gets good box office.

For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.

I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.

In the beginning of our career, we want to make an identity, and I am happy that people think I have good comic timing, and they are casting me in films.

I want to do more Tollywood projects but I don't go around asking for roles.

I didn't take the fight with Michael Grant because the timing wasn't right. They offered me a lot of money, but it wasn't in my best interest to take that fight. They were trying to use me to build up Michael Grant.

It was always my intention to go with a smaller club. I reckoned I'd get more of a chance.

My directing opportunities have been awesome, and my acting opportunities, some have been great and some have not.

Throughout my career, I wouldn't say my roles have been based on my being considered eye candy.

Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.

You have to think like a businessman or a businesswoman, and I can't wait to continue to grow, as an actress, but to also continue to grow as a brand and show people that I have so much more to offer.

I want to do only such films which will help me grow as an actor.

It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.

Before 'Holby,' I'd always avoided long-term roles.

Earlier in my career, there may have been compulsions for accepting films for money.

All I know is that I intend to do films which are different from each other, work with good directors and on great stories so that I get to grow as an actor. That's my only attempt.

A newcomer needs to be careful as to what kind of role they choose. If you choose something different, you will end up getting typecast. That's why I chose to play a character my age, to keep my options open for the future.

I want to sustain the good name that I earned acting in 'Azhagiya Theeyae.' I am selecting my roles very carefully.