Explore Quotes by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The career stuff is for business people.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I never intended to only do dark, serious things.

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.

Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.

My personal belief is that everything is always happening all at once.

It's a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with.

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.

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.

The only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing.

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.

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.

I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.

Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.

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.

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.

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.

Movies are different from real life.

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.