Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Page 2

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

The career stuff is for business people.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is giving a performance, and they kind of are. But, what's actually happening is that an actor has given a bunch of ingredients over to a director, who then constructs a performance. That's movie-making.

Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.

In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then, maybe a week later, someone would tell the same story, but with a different twist on it. That's how folk takes evolved.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

I lost you when you left me to find yourself.

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!

I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.

[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

eating is the sleeping of being awake.

Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.

We’re all beautiful. We all deserve attention.

This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard. It makes me so happy.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

We can be anybody we wanna be.

If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact... I'd point to Elon Musk.

Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

He loved me. He loves me not.

I'm the last person to tell my friends to go see something I'm in. I could care less if friends of mine never saw anything I'm in.

It's just a natural part of being a social creature and being a human being.

I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.

The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

I'm tired of being tired of being tired of being.

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is "we'll make this content, and you guys buy it," but I don't think that's the future.

The cool thing about my character was that it's not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I've seen how he looks and it's really cool.

I'm definitely not a science nerd, I'll say that. That was not my forte at school.

The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.

My favorite kinds of movies are the ones that start a conversation.

Your kisses are snowflakes: each one is unique. They land on me, before they melt away and leave me cold.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

I just need some time away to remember why I stay.

You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and camera and rhythm, or you get someone who can make beautiful images but they can't necessarily tell a great story. He does both and I think he's going to be one of the film-makers that our time is remembered for.

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

I love Kimberly Peirce. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what she's best at, sitting down with an actor and just getting to the heart of what a scene is. And getting to the heart of not just what the scene is and the character is, but what you are, and how to build that bridge between the "me" and the character, and those emotions.