Jonah Hill Quotes

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.

I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one person could hate him.

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.

It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good.

If I ever over hear people saying I give off an 'Ed Harris type of sexy vibe.' I'll be pretty psyched.

I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.

Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don't understand them.

I run and do a lot of push-ups and eat healthy.

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.

The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like “Mad Men” is disgusting. It’s a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.

Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.

Jump Street merging with MiB I think that's clean and rad and powerful.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.

I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.

I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2 than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'

When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'

I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye.

21 Jump Street is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.

I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.

I'm a big hip hop fan.

I would never remake something that was like "The Godfather." Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever.

I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.

I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess.

I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.