Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

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.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

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

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

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

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

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

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

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

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

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

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

I lost you when you left me to find yourself.

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

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.

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

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.

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

We’re all beautiful. We all deserve attention.

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

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

I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.

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

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness

When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.

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.

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

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

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

Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.

I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.

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.

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.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.

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

If the inspiration is genuine and it's coming from the right place, that's what I like and want to be a part of.

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

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

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.

eating is the sleeping of being awake.