Explore Quotes by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

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.

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

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.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

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

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.

I have a really terrible sense of direction.

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

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.

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.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

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.'

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

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

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

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.

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.

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.