Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Wise Famous Quotes.
"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.
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.
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.
I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.
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.
Okay, I'll admit, I have a few skeletons in my closet; but they weren't skeletons when I put them there.
As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.
I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!
Ok one more ... But then you have to read to me!
Ok one more ... But then you have to read to me!
His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.
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.
Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.
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.
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.
Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.
But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.
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.
Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.
I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before.
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.
I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.
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.
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
Ummm ... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.
One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.
Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?
Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
And in the morning
they shook their pillows
violently, hoping
all the dreams they lost
that night would tumble out.
they shook their pillows
violently, hoping
all the dreams they lost
that night would tumble out.
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.
Monuments make momentous men immortal, but more memorable are mortal men making mere moments monumental.
Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
I stood and watched
the final sunset as the
world was ending
light that once would fall
was now ascending
the final sunset as the
world was ending
light that once would fall
was now ascending
Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.
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.
The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.
I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.