Top 87 Quotes About Jonah Hill
#1. Moneyball. As the character played
by Jonah Hill argues convincingly to Brad Pitt's character,
baseball teams often overpay for young, untested talent or big
name players because they don't know how else to set an accurate price.
Grewal
#2. I met Taylor Lautner and Jonah Hill at the 'Today Show.' That was pretty cool.
Lexi Thompson
#3. These actors like Danny McBride and Jonah Hill are so good at improvising, and when they do it, it's this fun moment for the audience. It makes them feel like they're watching something fresh and new.
Jillian Bell
#4. If I wanted to see Jonah Hill masturbate at a pool party, I'd go to one of Jonah Hill's pool parties.
Amy Poehler
#5. There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.
Will Ferrell
#6. I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones ... Historic.
Sarah Hyland
#7. Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.
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#8. A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.
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#9. When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie.
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#10. Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.
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#11. I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.
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#12. I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess.
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#13. If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation, you've got to have a normal conversation. If you're trying to make them sad, you've got to make them sad. I think that's how you get real performances out of people.
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#14. '21 Jump Street' is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.
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#15. It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good.
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#16. I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.
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#17. Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.
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#18. In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.
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#19. Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.
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#20. 'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.
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#21. I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
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#22. I've never been into just really silly stuff.
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#23. I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.
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#24. People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy.
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#25. I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.
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#26. You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.
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#27. I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.
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#28. When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you're setting out to make. That's all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you're doing.
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#29. I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.
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#30. You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.
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#31. One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.
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#32. I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.
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#33. New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'
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#34. The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.
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#35. Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.
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#36. Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something.
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#38. Jump Street merging with MiB I think that's clean and rad and powerful.
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#39. Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.
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#40. The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.
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#41. The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.
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#42. When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know.
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#43. I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.
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#44. I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.
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#45. I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around screaming curse words.
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#46. I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.
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#47. The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.
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#48. I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.
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#49. When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'
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#50. Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.
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#51. I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.
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#52. I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.
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#53. I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
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#54. I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.
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#55. I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.
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#56. When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.
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#57. I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'
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#58. As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.
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#59. Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.
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#60. I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.
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#61. When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says."
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#62. 'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.
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#63. I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy ... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.
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#64. I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.
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#65. I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.
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#66. I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.
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#67. I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.
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#68. It's almost like, when someone plays poker for the first time, they might be a professional poker player out of ignorance, just accidentally winning. That was how it felt in my first stand-up appearance.
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#69. Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?
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#70. I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'
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#71. When you create something you're free to explore it however you want to do it.
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#72. I run and do a lot of push-ups and eat healthy.
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#73. If I ever over hear people saying I give off an 'Ed Harris type of sexy vibe.' I'll be pretty psyched.
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#74. Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.
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#75. There are a lot of things going into making a movie. So many things can go wrong. So many people that need to show up and bring their "A" game. If one thing is out of place, the whole movie can fall apart.
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#76. I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.
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#77. I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.
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#78. I think a lot of actors, sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, 'Oh my god, I'm never going to work again,' even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along.
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#79. I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.
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#80. I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.
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#81. I would never remake something that was like 'The Godfather.' Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever.
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#82. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.
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#83. My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.
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#84. I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it.
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#85. I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."
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#86. The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being funny in certain circumstances in order to do something that makes sense for the story or the character, or emotionally.
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#87. I love it, man; I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening.
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