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I'm definitely not a science nerd, I'll say that. That was not my forte at school.

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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I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.
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I want to keep working with people that care about what they're doing. It seems obvious, but it's not. It's sometimes hard to keep on that track.
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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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This movie [Don Jon] played at Sundance and South by Southwest and Berlin. And it just played - well...by the time it played at Toronto recently, it was already done. But getting to watch it with a thousand people is hugely informative.
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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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When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.
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I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.
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My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...
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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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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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Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.
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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.
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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've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.
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