Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor
1981-02-17
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an American actor known for roles in film and television since childhood. His credits include 500 Days of Summer, Inception, and The Dark Knight Rises.
Books by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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The tiny book of tiny stories
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HitRECord on TV! Season One
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Don Jon
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Quotes by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock,every thought, every treeand erase all the territory.
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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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His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.
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A man touched me: his hand... my thigh.I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.
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His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.
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A man touched me: his hand... my thigh.I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.
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Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock,every thought, every treeand erase all the territory.
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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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While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.
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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.
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If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.
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I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.
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A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'
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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.
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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.
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Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
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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.
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The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
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