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Jonah Hill, born on December 20, 1983, is an accomplished actor from the United States. Known for his versatile performances in both comedies and dramas, Hill has won the admiration of audiences and critical acclaim.

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“I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.”

Thinking Way Writing Believe I Believe I Believe In Collaboration Entertaining

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

Magic Grew Hero Grew Up Ice 80s Johnson My Hero Cubes

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

Writing Goal Produce Ultimate Ultimate Goal

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

Watches Directors

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“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.”

Men Feels Writing Years Believe Enough Jobs Lucky Happenings Blessed

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“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.”

Knows Mean Real Happened Crazy Real Life Abstract

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“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.”

Important Remakes

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“I'm a big hip hop fan.”

Bigs Fans Hip Hop Hips Hops

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“I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.”

Actors Comedian

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

Kids Islands New Orleans

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

World Feels Persons Lottery

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“21 Jump Street is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.”

Made Streets Surprise Guests

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“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.”

Whole Felt Emotion Comedy Generations Raised Unimaginable

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“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.”

Made Gone Crazy Performances Shining Stanley Best Performance

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“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.”

Men Stills Facts Shows Culture Jokes Mad Disgusting Mad Men

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“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.”

People Thinking Kind Fall Strange Bigger

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“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.”

Done Character Stories Certain Order Actors Sacrifice Circumstances Hardest Make Sense Best Things Hardest Thing Being Funny

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

Sound Compare Print Arrogant

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“It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.”

People Thinking Giving Can Do Expectations Shock Shocked Underdog

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“It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.”

World Film Comedy Unexpected Underdog

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“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.”

Men Looks Different Eye Age Fronts Interviews Public Eye Matured

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“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.”

People Writing Trying Book Faces Imagine Blow Who I Am Articles Writing A Book

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

Character I Realized

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

Wanted Opportunity Drama

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Actors Known Drama Work Out Good Actors Comedic

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“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.”

Different Running Kids Actors Boxes Curse Curse Words

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

Comedy Taste Dramatic Adore

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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.”

Writing Actors Comedy Havens Drama Dramatic Dramatic Writing

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“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.”

People World Believe Real Enough I Believe Comedy Lucky

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“I've never been into just really silly stuff.”

Stuff Silly Silly Stuff

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“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.”

Ifs Trying Littles Character Might Acting Situation Comedy Honest Style Drama Being Honest

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“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.”

Needs Kind Two Different Film Responsibility Audience Laughing Comedy Minutes Drama Pressure Regard Different Kinds No Pressure Make Someone Laugh

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

Giving Shows Action Animation

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

Sometimes Tvs Notes Insane

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“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.”

People Winning Healthy Rude Overweight

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“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."”

People Stories Age Interesting Crazy Incredibles Wow Interesting Stories

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“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.”

Feels Kind Company Building Department Temporary Ceo Hiring

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“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.”

People Hard Home Hurt Deceiving

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“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.”

Thinking Real Happened Real Life Fake Documentaries

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

Real Life Is Watches Real Life Fascinating Sci Fi

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“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.”

People Ifs World Sometimes Play Certain Support Occupation

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“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.”

People Knows Kind Ideas Next Interesting Arms Tables International No Idea Restaurants Dealer

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

Character Guy Pure Bad Guys Good Guy Ambiguous

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

People Thinking Mean Individual Lines Morality Draws

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“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.”

Knows Persons Character Hate Couple Hate Him

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“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.”

Thinking Trying Important Different Running Kids Water Comedy Cold Drama Work Out Curse Dramatic Comedic Just Saying

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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.”

Writing Trying Character Acting Situation Comedy Honest Style Drama Being Honest Dramatic

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“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.”

Moments Careers College Promoting

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“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.”

Inspirational Littles Games Grew Dad Basketball Grew Up Baseball My Dad League Fanatics Little League

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“If I ever over hear people saying I give off an 'Ed Harris type of sexy vibe.' I'll be pretty psyched.”

People Ifs Giving Type Sexy

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Born: December 20, 1983
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 102

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