Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.

When you become a ghost feel free to haunt me.

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

I didn't really like doing commercials.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.

That you can be whatever you want to be, whoever you want to be, regardless of your gender.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy. And the Internet is helping us get away from that.

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

If more people rode bikes and less people drove cars, the air would be in better shape and people would be in better shape.

Even when I was really young, I hated doing commercials, because I would say, "That's not real acting." And it's not. It's embarrassing what they make little kids do in commercials.

I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.

If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.

Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

Making little videos that you know are going to be on tiny windows is a whole different thing. I don't know what it's going to lead to necessarily, but it's certainly fun.

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh.

We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit.

For context, the budget of Don Jon is about half the budget of (500) Days of Summer. And (500) Days of Summer is about a third of the budget of the lowest-budget movies produced at a major studio.

I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.

I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.

Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.

Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.

I want to keep working with people that care about what they're doing. It seems obvious, but it's not. It's sometimes hard to keep on that track.

A man touched me: his hand... my thigh.I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.

Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock, every thought, every treeand erase all the territory.

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.

It's HE-RO, " the boy argued."No, " the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.

We could have been the greatest love story ever told.If only you'd stayed in character.

Life and Death took a break, weary from their burdensome role.Nobody lived or died that day.

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.

After you died I realized thatI never really like hunting.I just like hanging out with you.