Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is an American actor and filmmaker. As a child actor, he appeared in the films A River Runs Through It, Angels in the Outfield and 10 Things I Hate About You, and as Tommy Solomon in the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun. He took a break from acting to study at Columbia University, but dropped out in 2004 to pursue acting again. He has since starred in 500 Days of Summer, Inception, Hesher, 50/50, Premium...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth17 February 1981
CountryUnited States of America
Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.
This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.
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.
Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.
I have a really terrible sense of direction.
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.
When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.
Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.
It's just a natural part of being a social creature and being a human being.
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.
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
I didn't really like doing commercials.
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.