Explore Quotes by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.

Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.

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

We’re all beautiful. We all deserve attention.

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.

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that much about it. I wouldn't fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn't interest me right now.

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

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

Why am I doing the work I'm doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I possibly can? Questions are often looked upon as questions of doubt but I don't see it that way at all. I question things to stay present, to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

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.

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

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

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.