Top 140 Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “There’s a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that’s been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

53. “Nothing is ever finished. It’s a funny thing. I actually think that’s really the more natural way of stories or songs.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

54. “Monuments make momentous men immortal, but more memorable are mortal men making mere moments monumental.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

55. “Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that’s when you can start doing things that they don’t expect.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

56. “Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I’m in. It’s that simple.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

57. “Everyone has the attitude that movies aren’t just disposable entertainment – they can really mean something. I love that, because that’s the way I feel about films.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

58. “Actors didn’t use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

59. “Lets face it, most pretty girls arent funny.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

60. “There’s something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

61. “We’re all beautiful. We all deserve attention.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

62. “Being politically active is “more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party.””

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

63. “This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

64. “Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

65. “I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I’m inspired to work on.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

66. “I think violence begets violence. I don’t think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

67. “He loved me. He loves me not.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

68. “I didn’t really like doing commercials.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

69. “Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

70. “It’s less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

71. “When you believe that you can do something, that’s when you can do it.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

72. “I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

73. “I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

74. “I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

75. “Your kisses are snowflakes: each one is unique. They land on me, before they melt away and leave me cold.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

76. “Okay, I’ll admit, I have a few skeletons in my closet; but they weren’t skeletons when I put them there.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

77. “I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

78. “I have a really terrible sense of direction.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

79. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

80. “I don’t blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there’s a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that’s pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

81. “If you do or don’t like something it’s because of that thing and not because it has the right politics behind them or the right company or the right connections. It’s really just about the thing itself.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

82. “The term ‘popular culture’ always used to mean what the people do – pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

83. “I do feel that even though I didn’t grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they’re giving you a moral dilemma within that.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

84. “I think any time you set out to make something, anybody is going to be confronted by those voices in their head that say “You don’t need to do this. Someone else can do this better. You should probably just quit right now.””

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

85. “I think Hollywood, as it’s been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is “we’ll make this content, and you guys buy it,” but I don’t think that’s the future.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

86. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

87. “I’m definitely not a science nerd, I’ll say that. That was not my forte at school.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

88. “The traditions of Hollywood are grand and great and are going to survive forever, in a way. But they’re not going to be the only way for much longer. The technology is such now that you don’t have to have millions of dollars to make a movie. You can make one with a computer.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

89. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

90. “I’d been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn’t get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

92. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

93. “I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

94. “She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

95. “I don’t think action for action’s sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

96. “If the inspiration is genuine and it’s coming from the right place, that’s what I like and want to be a part of.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

97. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

98. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

99. “I like making little videos and little records. I’ve always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

100. “I’m the last person to tell my friends to go see something I’m in. I could care less if friends of mine never saw anything I’m in.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt