172 Quotes by Jonah Hill

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.

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.

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.

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.

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I’ve matured – and I’ve matured, become a man in front of the public eye.

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.

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.

I’m an actor, I’m not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

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.’