Top 140 Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 3 of 3

101. “Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

102. “Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

103. “I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

104. “It’s just a natural part of being a social creature and being a human being.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

105. “Even when I was really young, I hated doing commercials, because I would say, “That’s not real acting.” And it’s not. It’s embarrassing what they make little kids do in commercials.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

106. “There were memories in that melody.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

107. “What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

108. “I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that’s written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that’s good, and I want to do it.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

109. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

110. “My favorite kinds of movies are the ones that start a conversation.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

111. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

112. “Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

113. “I have a lot of trouble getting turned on by girls who are turned on by celebrity.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

114. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

115. “I didn’t really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

116. “Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

117. “Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

118. “I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn’t listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

119. “I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

120. “I don’t think you necessarily have to be the most perfected performer, in order to express your feelings. It’s really those feelings that an audience connects with, I think, at least as much as perfected technical skill.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

121. “I want to keep working with people that care about what they’re doing. It seems obvious, but it’s not. It’s sometimes hard to keep on that track.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

122. “A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

123. “I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

124. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

125. “I just love to act. It’s my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that’s what I just love to do.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

126. “If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

127. “I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

128. “Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

129. “If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

130. “As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that’s when things start feeling fake and boring.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

131. “We can be anybody we wanna be.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

132. “Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

133. “I was studying for the SAT’s and learning lines.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

134. “The truth of actually working on a movie set is that you’re in the midst of a logistical nightmare. There are so many things going on. There are many factors that keep your ideal scenario from ever happening. And you’re rarely going to get that.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

135. “Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

136. “I think we all have a tendency to feel like, “Well, what can I do? I can’t influence the government or politics in my country.””

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

137. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

138. “Blessed are they that crumble; from them new worlds are made.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

139. “The cool thing about my character was that it’s not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I’ve seen how he looks and it’s really cool.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

140. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

141. “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.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

142. “If more people rode bikes and less people drove cars, the air would be in better shape and people would be in better shape.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

143. “Making little videos that you know are going to be on tiny windows is a whole different thing. I don’t know what it’s going to lead to necessarily, but it’s certainly fun.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt