Jason Bateman opens up to Details magazine about his wild party days and decided to quite.

Bateman addresses all this with the sort of self-awareness that makes catting around Hollywood, aspiring to be a “25-year-old obnoxious drunk with a beak full of schnitz all night” sound like a stop on the road to enlightenment. “I had anxiety about making sure the rest of my life wasn’t anticlimactic,” he says. “Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady—a normal, routine environment. When that went away and I didn’t have that infrastructure, I had to start over.”

Bateman confesses, “Booze was what would make me want to stay out all night and do some blow or smoke a joint or whatever, so shutting that off was key…So that’s the moment: Do you want to continue to be great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?”