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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: February 17
Actor
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Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt
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The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
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Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.
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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.
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I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.
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A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'
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The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
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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.
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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.
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There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.
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If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.
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The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.
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You're gone. No mailing address. But I send you letters anyway.
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I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.
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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.
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If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.
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The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.
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I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.
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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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Well, look who I ran into, crowed Coincidence. Please, flirted Fate, this was meant to be.
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Being politically active is more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party.
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