Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie. "

Jonah Hill

Best

Crazy

Love

Related Quotes:

" I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one. "

" Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure. "

" I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life. "

" All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know? "

" When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.' "

" When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie. "

" I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically. "

" New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.' "

Jonah Hill

Island

New

" It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked. "

" I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much. "

" I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy. "

Jonah Hill

Game

iPhone

" Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world. "

" I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older. "

Jonah Hill

Think

Change

" A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt. "

" I would never remake something that was like 'The Godfather.' Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever. "

Jonah Hill

Never

" It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good. "

" I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes. "

Jonah Hill

Johnson

Magic

" Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career. "

" I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal. "

Jonah Hill

Write

Ultimate

" I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know. "

" I run and do a lot of push-ups and eat healthy. "

" I think a lot of actors, sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, 'Oh my god, I'm never going to work again,' even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along. "

" I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me. "

Jonah Hill

Pride

Movies

" I love it, man; I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening. "

" I'm a big hip hop fan. "

" It's almost like, when someone plays poker for the first time, they might be a professional poker player out of ignorance, just accidentally winning. That was how it felt in my first stand-up appearance. "

" I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.' "

Jonah Hill

Way

Kids

" One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges. "

" I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched. "

Jonah Hill

Life

Failure

" I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it. "