Joseph Gordon Levitt Funny Quotes

I don't buy into the glory days thing. I think every time has its great things to it. The '60s were such a glorious time but it's easy to forget that there was all sorts of bullshit too. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The career stuff is for business people. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When you become a ghost
feel free to haunt me. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact ... I'd point to Elon Musk. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

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

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

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. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The cool thing about my character was that it's not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I've seen how he looks and it's really cool. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I collect flickering stars
in old pickling jars,
poking holes in the lids
so they can breathe. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry. It broadcasted its message and 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 and actually restoring a more natural way. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The poets pinned tragedies
to their chests like ribbons. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If you don't stick to your plan enough, and you're too seduced by whimsical notions and new ideas, you can kind of lose your train of thought and end up with something that doesn't have a solid through-line. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

The truth of actually working on a movie set is that you're in the midst of a logistical nightmare. There are so many things going on. There are many factors that keep your ideal scenario from ever happening. And you're rarely going to get that. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through. ~ Jamie Bell

I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

One day she looked
up and discovered an
opening in her planet.

She wondered if she
wasn't alone after all. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Today's a great time to be any creative type of person, I think, and in just about every aspect of creativity, this generation is going to blow away every generation ever. Because we're the first ones with the Internet. I can get together with some friends, shoot a movie, cut it on my laptop at home, and then put it online. We don't have to listen to anyone. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Why am I doing the work I'm doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I possibly can? Questions are often looked upon as questions of doubt but I don't see it that way at all. I question things to stay present, to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The media's about to become a lot more effective. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It's just a natural part of being a social creature and being a human being. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is giving a performance, and they kind of are. But, what's actually happening is that an actor has given a bunch of ingredients over to a director, who then constructs a performance. That's movie-making. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt