Top 30 Justine Bateman Quotes

My Vikings class was super fun, and I have loved the computer science classes. Coding, for me, is like a boyfriend that makes you really upset, and then you can’t get enough of him.

If somebody did a new show that, within a family, had conflicting political views, that would be great.

I have some very good friends who’ve written memoirs, but it’s not for me. It’s just not a format that I’m interested in.

Pursuing fame is the ultimate in people-pleasing and the ultimate betrayal of self.

I’m picky about skin care because I hate perfumes or anything that says ‘It will take away all the lines on your face.’ I don’t want to do that. But I do use Kiehl’s and this skin cream called Restorsea because it makes my skin look nice and feel soft.

Maybe for every 100 fans who thought about saying something nasty to singer Justin Bieber this month, maybe 200 did.

There’s an attention paid to the fame – the sort of sheath that’s on you, this sort of cloud that’s covering over you – and that’s what people want to touch. It’s not even really you that they want to touch.

Starting in my 20s, I couldn’t wait to look like Anna Magnani or Isabelle Huppert, all these great European actresses – Charlotte Rampling – the cheekbones and the heavy lidded eyes and the dark circles under the eyes, you know. So around 42/44, I started getting a little character on my face, and I was so glad.

You get into any club you want, you have backstage passes for any concert you can think of, anywhere. You have access to everything, in the same way a toddler does. Everybody’s like, ‘Oh come on in!’

Mail is processed. It arrives at Paramount Studios! It’s sorted, and a pile is brought to the production offices for each of the TV shows shot there. That mail is sorted so that each actor gets his letters. A pile is placed in his dressing room.

What we do for a living is not normal, and therefore, the process is not normal sometimes, and to expect it to be normal is to not understand what happens on set.

Sometimes in theater, they’ll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.

I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it’s like, ‘blah, blah, blah,’ oh there’s the information I need, and then ‘blah, blah, blah,’ right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.

With computer science, I had to go through that uncomfortable process of my brain establishing a hash table, if you will – the coders will get that – for this new information, because I didn’t have one. So I had to establish a brand-new file system from scratch.

Reality programming and social media make the game board bigger; they increase the number of runners on the track, each lunging at the finish line to be the first chest to hit the tape.

I think Kathie Lee Gifford had a line at Wal-mart, and Monica Lewinsky had a line of handbags.

There’s a panic, a rush, to this ‘achievement’ of fame. There’s also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the hatred of it. We sometimes hate the famous while, at the same time, straining to achieve fame oneself.

They couldn’t wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.

All I can say, personally, is I have never learned more from an actor that I’ve worked with than Jeffrey Tambor. And I consider him one of my favorite, most valued people in my life.

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

You can’t really fault people who are experiencing fame. They’re just making their way through, and everybody around them is reflecting this fame right back at them. It’s strange.

I had no idea that our love of fame was going to display itself in a high political office on a world stage.

I think the most attractive people are the confident ones, regardless of their literal appearance, so I strive for that. Basically, I think you’ll always be the size your body needs to be if you only eat if you are hungry. If you never eat for any other reason, you’ll be just the right size for your body.

I’m going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I’ll be like, ‘Give me a call when you’re done with all that.’

I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it’s a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.

When you have to write a letter, you’re automatically put into a state of composure and a kind of formality. You can’t help it. So, no, I never once got a letter where someone just popped off at me.

Augmented reality, and even just the iPad-touch-screen technology, it was, you know, it still is extremely underused by entertainment.

I see a lot of women around me who seem to stop developing as individuals after marriage and children. I don’t know what kinds of pressure they’re under, but I think it robs the world of ‘the older version of Judy or Wendy,’ or whomever. It robs the world of the next iteration of them, and I don’t think that’s right.

My personal feeling about reboots is – I’m very against it. I feel bad for the pop culture of this generation because I feel like they’re getting a lot of retread… a lot of digested and vomited stuff from our teens and 20s and all of that.