Quotes by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

• Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
• Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
• I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.
• I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.
• To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.
• Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.
• When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing.
• If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.
• Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.