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Work Quotes by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- 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…
- 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…
- What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
- 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.
- There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And…
- I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.
- I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from…
- Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.
- I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always…
- My freshman year at Columbia was the longest break I'd had from acting since I was six years old. When I was a teenager I…
- 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…
- Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them. 'Brick' was a good script just to read. It was like, 'Oh my God, these…
- Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels. Actors were poor. Celebrities used to be…
- I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle