172 Quotes by Jonah Hill

I don’t like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

I’ve never been into just really silly stuff.

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that’s often hard.

You just have to be strong and don’t be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.

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.

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn’t become skilled at.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in ‘Pinocchio.’

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.

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.