Top 80 Jonah Hill Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.”

— Jonah Hill

2. “I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I’m psyched.”

— Jonah Hill

3. “Jump Street merging with MiB I think that’s clean and rad and powerful.”

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4. “I’m a different actor than you thought I was. Don’t put me in a box. I’m not just some kid running around screaming curse words.”

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5. “I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.”

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

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7. “Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn’t directing make me a better actor and writer?”

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8. “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.”

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9. “When you create something you’re free to explore it however you want to do it.”

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10. “If you’re trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you’re trying to have a normal conversation, you’ve got to have a normal conversation. If you’re trying to make them sad, you’ve got to make them sad. I think that’s how you get real performances out of people.”

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11. “I don’t like to say mean things about people’s hard work.”

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12. “Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during ‘The Shining.’ It’s like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn’t have gone that far, but I love that movie.”

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13. “When a movie like ‘Superbad’ or ‘Moneyball’ comes out, people make you feel like you’re the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you’re a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It’s all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It’s just a movie.”

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14. “I’m really proud of ‘Moneyball.’ To me, it’s about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I’m an old man I’ll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That’s all I can really go for: making movies to please me.”

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15. “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.”

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

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17. “The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like ‘Mad Men’ is disgusting. It’s a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.”

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18. “I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, “People will LOVE the ninja version of that.””

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19. “There are a lot of things going into making a movie. So many things can go wrong. So many people that need to show up and bring their “A” game. If one thing is out of place, the whole movie can fall apart.”

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20. “People are so funny. There’s no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They’d be rude that I was overweight, and now they’re rude that I’m healthy.”

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21. “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.”

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

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23. “Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.”

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24. “Be open to other people’s ideas. Don’t get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you’re not stuck with just one version of something.”

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25. “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.’”

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26. “I’ve never been into just really silly stuff.”

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27. “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.”

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28. “If I ever over hear people saying I give off an ‘Ed Harris type of sexy vibe.’ I’ll be pretty psyched.”

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29. “When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, “Well, that’s not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says.” So, I was like, “Well, I want to write what Homer says.””

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

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31. “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.”

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32. “Besides the fact that I make movies, there’s nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.”

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33. “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.”

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

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35. “I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.”

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38. “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.”

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39. “I run and do a lot of push-ups and eat healthy.”

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40. “It’s not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I’m no longer the underdog in that world.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “You have more of a responsibility to make the audience laugh. In comedy, we do have to say, “All right, it’s been two minutes in the film. We need another laugh here.” With drama, there’s no pressure in that regard. It’s a different kind of pressure, but it’s not like we need to make someone laugh.”

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43. “Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That’s all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.”

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44. “Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.”

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47. “I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.”

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48. “I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.”

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49. “The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.”

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50. “I would never remake something that was like ‘The Godfather.’ Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever.”

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