Quotes by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

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

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

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

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

“I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I dont think being sad is to be avoided. Its apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But f...”

“We could have been the greatest love story ever told.If only you'd 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.”

“I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!”

“It's HE-RO," the boy argued."No," the girl insisted,"it's HER-O.”

“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...”

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

“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...”

“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 m...”

“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!”

“As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.”

“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.”

“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 t...”