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It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.
Jonah Hill
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Jonah Hill
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: December 20
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As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.
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I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.
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When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know.
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I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.
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When you create something you're free to explore it however you want to do it.
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My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.
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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.
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I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.
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Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.
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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.
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I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.
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Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.
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The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.
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Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something.
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'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.
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I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.
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You just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility.
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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.
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