Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

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.

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.

The career stuff is for business people.

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.

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.

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.

I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.

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.

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.

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.