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Joseph Gordon-Levitt [1981-0] American

Rank: 104
Actor

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is an American actor and filmmaker. As a child actor, he appeared in the films A River Runs Through It, Angels in the Outfield and 10 Things I Hate About You, and as Tommy Solomon in the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun.

Alone, Art, Cool, Dad, Funny, Mom, Movies, Music, Peace, Poetry, Thankful

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There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.		101
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.	Music	102
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.	Peace, Thankful	103
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.	Art	104
As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.	Funny	105
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.	Cool	106
I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.		107
Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.	Movies	108
If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.	Alone	109
When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.		110
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.'		111
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.	Dad, Mom	112
There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.		113
I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always take that as a really good sign.		114
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.	Alone	115
I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.		116
It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.		117
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.		118
The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.		119
The media's about to become a lot more effective.		120
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.		121
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.		122
When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them.		123
Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.		124
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry. It broadcasted its message and everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy and actually restoring a more natural way.		125
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.		126
The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.		201
I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.		202
A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that much about it. I wouldn't fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn't interest me right now.		203
I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.		204
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.	Poetry	205
When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'		206
I have a really terrible sense of direction.		207
The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.		208
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.		209
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.		210
There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.		211
Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.		212
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!		213
Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.		214
The only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing.		215
If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.		216
Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.		217
I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before.		218
When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.		219
One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.		220
Movies are different from real life.		221
I hate cars.		222
I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.		223
My personal belief is that everything is always happening all at once.		224
Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.		225
On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.		226
The career stuff is for business people.		301
The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.		302
Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.		303
I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.		304
To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.		305
While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.		306
I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.		307
I didn't really like doing commercials.		308
To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.		309
I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.		310
When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.		311
Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.		312
It's a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with.		313
I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.		314
Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.		315
I never intended to only do dark, serious things.		316

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