Jonah Hill Quotes

I've never been into just really silly stuff.

You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.

When you create something you're free to explore it however you want to do it.

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.

Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?

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.

Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something.

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.

I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.

People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy.

The drama thing was something I've always wanted to do, but the opportunities are rare, and they have to be the right ones.

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.

When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know.

In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.

I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around screaming curse words.

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

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.

It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring some of that home with you or inside of you.

Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something.