Quotes by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Almost every script is anything from shabby to awful, but this one was great,”

“You could tell immediately that care and passion had gone into writing it.”

“Ive played the smart kid, the funny one, the nice sweet one, even the angry one, but never the sexy one,”

“Thats what Neil had to be and I didnt see myself that way and I didnt think anyone else did, so Ill be forever indebted to Gregg for seeing it and choosing me.”

“Personally, when I watch mysteries, I never follow all the plot twists the first time, whether it be Citizen Kane or Chinatown. I never guessed who done it because Im too wrapped up in the characters and their feelings. Ultimate, what Brick is about is not the plot, but its really a story about some characters. Its kind of a classic genre story, but the style nobody writes like that nowadays, nobody, and I remember just pacing around my apartment reading the words aloud, and being so pleased having these lyrical words inside my mouth.”

A man touched me: his hand... my thigh.I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock,every thought, every treeand erase all the territory.

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

Im ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

If I read our story backwards, its about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.

Its HE-RO, the boy argued.No, the girl insisted,its HER-O.

We could have been the greatest love story ever told.If only youd stayed in character.

Life and Death took a break,weary from their burdensome role.Nobody lived or died that day.

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.

After you died I realized thatI never really like hunting.I just like hanging out with you.

The doctors wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

The spiral in a snails shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and its also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. Its the same ratio that youll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

I was studying for the SATs and learning lines.