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

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: February 17
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Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt
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Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.
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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.
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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.
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We can be anybody we wanna be.
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A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.
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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.
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I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.
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If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.
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[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.
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When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.
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Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.
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eating is the sleeping of being awake.
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I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh.
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If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.
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The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.
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When you become a ghost feel free to haunt me.
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I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is we'll make this content, and you guys buy it, but I don't think that's the future.
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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.
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The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.
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I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they're giving you a moral dilemma within that.
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