Top 100 Gordon Levitt Quotes
#1. My favorite actor that I look up to is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. His career is something I look up to, I just want to be that guy. He's always part of projects that have a lot of soul and that's what I want to do as an actor.
Grant Gustin
#2. I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.
Michael B. Jordan
#3. 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
#4. 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.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#5. The only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.
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#14. 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.
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#15. I'm definitely not a science nerd, I'll say that. That was not my forte at school.
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#16. Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.
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#21. 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.
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#23. The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen.
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#24. We could have been the greatest love story ever told.
If only you'd stayed in character.
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#26. 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.
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#27. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.
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#29. 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.
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#30. 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.
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#31. I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don't think being sad is to be avoided. It's apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that's sadistic of me.
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#32. Your kisses are snowflakes: each one is unique. They land on me, before they melt away and leave me cold.
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#33. When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.
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#39. Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.
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#41. I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!
Ok one more ... But then you have to read to me!
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#42. This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard.
It makes me so happy.
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#43. You see a woman on a screen and you reduce her to just a thing, a sex object.
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#44. I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
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#49. Everyone has a unique perspective and that's valid. Everyone's perspective is valid. That doesn't mean that everyone has the same degree of skill level as an entertainer, but skill isn't the only important thing. It's also what kind of perspective and feelings you're bringing to it.
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#50. 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.
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#51. I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."
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#52. 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.
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#53. I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.
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#54. I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.
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#59. Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.
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#60. 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.
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#62. She had a great big heart
but very little grace.
Every time she fell in love
she landed on her face.
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#63. I think any time you set out to make something, anybody is going to be confronted by those voices in their head that say "You don't need to do this. Someone else can do this better. You should probably just quit right now."
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#64. If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact ... I'd point to Elon Musk.
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#66. As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.
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#69. If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.
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#70. Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.
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#71. I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a conveyer belt of shiny products to buy. It should be a way that we're all communicating and understanding each other.
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#72. If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.
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#74. Monuments make momentous men immortal, but more memorable are mortal men making mere moments monumental.
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#75. 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.
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#76. Once upon
a dream
in a blanket
of night sky
you asked me
to tell you a story
which began with
us holding hands.
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#77. I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity.
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#78. 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.
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#79. I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they're giving you a moral dilemma within that.
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#80. Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?
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#81. 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.
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#82. I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.
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#84. 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.
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#85. You have reached the edge of the world.
Please stand behind the barrier and take no photo.
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#86. 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.
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#87. I have a lot of trouble getting turned on by girls who are turned on by celebrity.
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#88. 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.
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#91. I stood and watched
the final sunset as the
world was ending
light that once would fall
was now ascending
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#93. After you died I realized that
I never really like hunting.
I just like hanging out with you.
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#94. 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.
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#95. I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.
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#98. Hollywood can be an exclusive place. Who gets to be on TV, or who gets to make TV can be a small clique of an industry. There's so many talented, skilled people, all over the world, that might not have the connections or the opportunities to work in TV.
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#99. When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.
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