Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Thankful, Peace, Tomorrow

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.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Gossip, Greed, Apathy

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

Simplicity, Images, Appealing

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

History, Someone, Human

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Music, Find, Same

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

Alone, Yourself, End

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

Greedy, Share, Movement

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

Funny, Fake, Feeling

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.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Mom, Dad, Friends

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.'
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Home, Said, Started

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.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Art, Thinking, Rich

I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Nothing, Mean, Wrong

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Learning, Studying, Lines

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

Work, Someone, Sometimes

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

Someone, Else, Creative

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Music, Movies, Important

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Job, Treat, Anyone

A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that much about it. I wouldn't fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn't interest me right now.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Money, Saying, Made

A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Good, Confidence, Laugh

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

Put, Next, Hundred

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Comedy, Takes, Skills

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.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Women, Men, Movies

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

Movies, Idea, Dumb

I didn't really like doing commercials.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: February 17, 1981

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