Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes - Page 2

We’re all beautiful. We all deserve attention.

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.

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.

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

This is the saddest, most depressing music I've ever heard. It makes me so happy.

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

The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is giving a performance, and they kind of are. But, what's actually happening is that an actor has given a bunch of ingredients over to a director, who then constructs a performance. That's movie-making.

Movies are different from real life.

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

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.

Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.

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.

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.

I lost you when you left me to find yourself.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I just need some time away to remember why I stay.

I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then, maybe a week later, someone would tell the same story, but with a different twist on it. That's how folk takes evolved.

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.