Latest Jonah Hill Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Writing, Character

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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.

  Jonah Hill

  Running, Drama, Kids

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

  Jonah Hill

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Interview With Jonah Hill And Todd Phillips On New Film 'War Dogs'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 21, 2016.

• 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.

  Jonah Hill

  Couple, Hate, Character

  "Interview With Jonah Hill And Todd Phillips On New Film 'War Dogs'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 21, 2016.

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

  Jonah Hill

  Character, Guy, Ambiguous

  "Interview With Jonah Hill And Todd Phillips On New Film 'War Dogs'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 21, 2016.

• 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.

  Jonah Hill

  Ideas, People, Interesting

  "‘War Dogs': Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, and Todd Phillips on the Stranger-Than-Fiction Tale". Press conference, collider.com. August 15, 2016.

• 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.

  Jonah Hill

  Play, People, Support

  "‘War Dogs': Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, and Todd Phillips on the Stranger-Than-Fiction Tale". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2016.

• I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.

  Jonah Hill

  Real, Thinking, Fake

  "‘War Dogs': Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, and Todd Phillips on the Stranger-Than-Fiction Tale". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2016.

• I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.

  Jonah Hill

  Real, Watches, Life Is

  "‘War Dogs': Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, and Todd Phillips on the Stranger-Than-Fiction Tale". Press Conference, collider.com. August 15, 2016.

• 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.

  Jonah Hill

  Hurt, Home, People

  "‘War Dogs': Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, and Todd Phillips on the Stranger-Than-Fiction Tale". Press conference, collider.com. August 15, 2016.

• 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."

  Jonah Hill

  Crazy, People, Interesting

  "‘War Dogs': Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, and Todd Phillips on the Stranger-Than-Fiction Tale". Press conference, collider.com. August 15, 2016.

• Every time you're directing a movie you're kind of building a temporary business. You're hiring all these heads of departments, and it definitely feels like I'm like a CEO of a very temporary company.

  Jonah Hill

  Kind, Building, Ceo

  "‘War Dogs': Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, and Todd Phillips on the Stranger-Than-Fiction Tale". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2016.

• 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.

  Jonah Hill

  Winning, People, Rude

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

• Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don't understand them.

  Jonah Hill

  Insane, Tvs, Sometimes

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

• You have more of a responsibility to make the audience laugh. In comedy, we do have to say, "All right, it's been two minutes in the film. We need another laugh here." With drama, there's no pressure in that regard. It's a different kind of pressure, but it's not like we need to make someone laugh.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Responsibility, Two

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

• Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.

  Jonah Hill

  Giving, Action, Animation

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

• I've never been into just really silly stuff.

  Jonah Hill

  Silly, Stuff, Silly Stuff

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

• 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.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Character, Style

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

• 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.

  Jonah Hill

  Real, Believe, People

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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

  Jonah Hill

  Taste, Comedy, Dramatic

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Writing, Actors

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

• 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.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Thinking, Work Out

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

• 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.

  Jonah Hill

  Running, Kids, Different

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, film.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Opportunity, Wanted

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

• 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.

  Jonah Hill

  Book, Writing, Blow

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.