Jason Bateman Quotes

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

I need to be bad. I don't want to burn out. I also don't want to be a person who is always performance-oriented. I also want to have some fun.

I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

I work hard but I play hard.

Free time keeps me going.

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

I want to sit and be less career oriented. Snowboard, dirt bike, mountain bike, surf. Just be human. To me, that's an important part of life.

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

Being exhausted is all part of the fun. I'm cool with it. I'm not going to wish that it would slow down.

I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

I work hard, so I play harder.

It was a blast. I was doing everything that teenagers do and everything people in their twenties do. I was playing as hard as I was working, which was an effort to really balance my life.

I grind and I graft, but I will make sure that I get that time off here and there to unwind and relax and have a life.

I had a long run for, like, probably 10 years with no vacation.

Each gig is brilliant and fun. When it becomes a routine, we'll take a break. There's no point in doing it if you don't enjoy it.

We're human. Enjoy yourself. You work hard every day; you deserve to turn up on the weekends with your friends.

I work hard, but I also play hard. Everyone needs balance in life.

I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.

I honestly wear myself out walking around, fixing this and fixing that. Maybe that's why I like to work so much - so I can just get to that moment where I'm like, "Whoa." I have to be super tired and knocked out to stop!

You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.