#kin

I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#because #been #best #bit #business

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. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#approach #around #box #box office #business

Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#dries #early #empathize #enough #fortunately

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society. ↗

— Alan Bates

#always #believed #confront #different #different personalities

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see. ↗

— Phyllis Battelle

#broken heart #cigar #elevator #fat #five

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period. ↗

— Kathy Bates

#challenge #character #different #different kind #empathy

I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage. ↗

— Kathy Bates

#environment #experience #i #i think #just

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy. ↗

— Kathy Bates

#changed #everything #exposure #less #more

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#explain #impossible #invoking #pattern #principle

Inspiration comes of working every day. ↗