Jonah Hill Quotes - Page 3

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye.

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.

I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2 than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'

21 Jump Street is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.

Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.

Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something.

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy.

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring some of that home with you or inside of you.

Every time you're directing a movie you're kind of building a temporary business. You're hiring all these heads of departments, and it definitely feels like I'm like a CEO of a very temporary company.

I've never been into just really silly stuff.

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

You have more of a responsibility to make the audience laugh. In comedy, we do have to say, "All right, it's been two minutes in the film. We need another laugh here." With drama, there's no pressure in that regard. It's a different kind of pressure, but it's not like we need to make someone laugh.

In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.

Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.

I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

The drama thing was something I've always wanted to do, but the opportunities are rare, and they have to be the right ones.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around screaming curse words.