285 Quotes by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

There’s an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn’t disagree more.

In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they’d tell a story. And then, maybe a week later, someone would tell the same story, but with a different twist on it. That’s how folk takes evolved.

Every day I’ve got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know – the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you’d better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.

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.

Don’t we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

Hollywood can be an exclusive place. Who gets to be on TV, or who gets to make TV can be a small clique of an industry. There’s so many talented, skilled people, all over the world, that might not have the connections or the opportunities to work in TV.

Your heart has a little empty corner. You won’t even know I’m there – I’ll be very quiet.

I didn’t really like doing commercials.

It’s worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don’t have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.