When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.' -Joseph Gordon-Levitt Home
If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone. -Joseph Gordon-Levitt Alone
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. -Joseph Gordon-Levitt Movies
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. -Joseph Gordon-Levitt Mom
Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment. -Joseph Gordon-Levitt Peace
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. -Joseph Gordon-Levitt Money
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb! -Joseph Gordon-Levitt Movies
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. -Joseph Gordon-Levitt Poetry
Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment. -Joseph Gordon-Levitt Thankful
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. -Joseph Gordon-Levitt History
As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring. -Joseph Gordon-Levitt Funny
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world. -Joseph Gordon-Levitt Music
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. -Joseph Gordon-Levitt Dad
