Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.”

“Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.”

“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.”

“When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”