Jonah Hill
I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."Collection: Men
You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.Collection: Strong
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.Collection: Thinking
When you create something you're free to explore it however you want to do it.Collection: Want
If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.Collection: Make Someone Happy
I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.Collection: Hard Work
I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.Collection: Mean
I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.Collection: People
As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.Collection: Eye
When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you're setting out to make. That's all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you're doing.Collection: Integrity
I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one person could hate him.Collection: Couple
If I ever over hear people saying I give off an 'Ed Harris type of sexy vibe.' I'll be pretty psyched.Collection: Sexy
I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.Collection: Dream
I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day.Collection: One Day
I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, "Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school." I had a great high-school experience.Collection: School
It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.Collection: Struggle
If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation, you've got to have a normal conversation. If you're trying to make them sad, you've got to make them sad. I think that's how you get real performances out of people.Collection: Real
I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess.Collection: People
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.Collection: Important
All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Generations
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. But for me, I freak out - because I'm a bit of a workaholic - the second I finish a movie going oh my god, what am I going to do, but I can start writing the next day so it doesn't force me to make a bad choice acting-wise.Collection: Wise
There are a lot of things going into making a movie. So many things can go wrong. So many people that need to show up and bring their "A" game. If one thing is out of place, the whole movie can fall apart.Collection: Fall
When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says."Collection: Growing Up
I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.Collection: Nice
Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.Collection: Thinking
I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.Collection: 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.Collection: Promise
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?Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Ideas
People who are just in a restaurant that you would never know are international arms dealers is kind of interesting, they're at the table next to you and you have no idea, you never know what everyone's up to.Collection: Ideas
When you're looking for stories or movies usually the great stories are about people in their 30s or 40s because they've lived more life and they're usually accomplishing more incredible things. But when there's an interesting story about someone that's your age, you immediately - especially when you're younger - are like, "Wow that's crazy! There's not very many of these."Collection: Crazy
I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.Collection: Sound
The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being funny in certain circumstances in order to do something that makes sense for the story or the character, or emotionally.Collection: Character
The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.Collection: Romance
Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don't understand them.Collection: Insane
The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.Collection: Character
The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like “Mad Men” is disgusting. It’s a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.Collection: Men
Jump Street merging with MiB I think that's clean and rad and powerful.Collection: Powerful
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. For me it's important making that transition seamless, and not a huge shock and jumping into cold water. It doesn't feel like I'm trying to shock you or anything. I'm just saying, "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 have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy, but I love dramatic movies just as much.Collection: Running
As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama. When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.Collection: Drama
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.Collection: Hurt
I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Drama
When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye.Collection: Eye
It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.Collection: Underdog
I couldn't imagine someone playing me or writing a book about who I am. Although I let people write articles and try and express who I am, and it blows up wildly in my face.Collection: Book
The drama thing was something I've always wanted to do, but the opportunities are rare, and they have to be the right ones.Collection: Drama
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.Collection: Running