172 Quotes by Jonah Hill

I’m a big hip hop fan.

If you’re trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

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.

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.

Germany’s amongst my top three places in the world I’d like to live.

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.

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.

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.

As a writer, I haven’t delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.