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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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I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.
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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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If you do or don't like something it's because of that thing and not because it has the right politics behind them or the right company or the right connections. It's really just about the thing itself.
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Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.
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Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.
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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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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.
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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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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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You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and camera and rhythm, or you get someone who can make beautiful images but they can't necessarily tell a great story. He does both and I think he's going to be one of the film-makers that our time is remembered for.
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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 know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.
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Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.
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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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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 collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.
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When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.
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Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy. And the Internet is helping us get away from that.
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Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.
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If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact... I'd point to Elon Musk.
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