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. Jonah Hill Read Quote
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. Jonah Hill Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Look, at the same time that I don’t want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I’d be a baby and a fool to be like, ‘Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?’ when I’m on a billboard for a movie. I think that’s a very absurd concept. Jonah Hill Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Allen Gregory’ came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn’t do that in real life. Jonah Hill Read Quote
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called ‘I Heart Huckabees.’ Jonah Hill Read Quote
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. Jonah Hill Read Quote
