“Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you want...” — Jason Bateman Quote

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.

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 would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.

Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium.

I like to save my money for buying houses.

When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.'