"I still feel like I'm trying to not be a child-actor failure. I'm still trying to make it out. When I was a kid, the three things I wanted to get done as an adult were to be a father, a husband, and direct a movie. My mom was a flight attendant for Pan Am, so she was flying internationally half the month my whole childhood."
"Starting at the age of ten, I was teaching myself how to be a professional liar. How to convince people that I was something other than what I was thinking inside. My older daughter is just eating up everything about the college experience. The future's so bright. I remember feeling that when I was eighteen too. I just thought there was no one better than me, and there are interviews that I've seen that prove that."
Jason Bateman has sustained fame for nearly fifty years and transitioned from child actor to Golden Globe-winning actor, Emmy-winning director, and podcast cohost. He is married twenty-four years with two daughters, one recently starting college. Childhood instability included a mother who flew internationally and a freelance-writer father, producing irregular family routines and parent-managers. Early career success produced lingering insecurity and a habit of learning to perform or conceal inner feelings. Bateman set adult goals to be a father, husband, and film director. He acknowledges youthful arrogance when looking back at past interviews and remains driven to keep proving himself.
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