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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. — Jonah Hill

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The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity. — Jonah Hill

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

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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. — Jonah Hill

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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." — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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

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I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess. — Jonah Hill

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I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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

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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. — Jonah Hill

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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. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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

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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. — Jonah Hill

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Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world. — Jonah Hill

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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

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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

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I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work. — Jonah Hill

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'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

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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. — Jonah Hill

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Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career. — Jonah Hill

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Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that." — Jonah Hill

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When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.' — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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I run and do a lot of push-ups and eat healthy. — Jonah Hill

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I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day. — Jonah Hill

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I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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

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I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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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? — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard. — Jonah Hill

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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

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

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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. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.' — Jonah Hill

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I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched. — Jonah Hill

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I'm a big hip hop fan. — Jonah Hill

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Jump Street merging with MiB I think that's clean and rad and powerful. — Jonah Hill

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New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.' — Jonah Hill

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It's almost like, when someone plays poker for the first time, they might be a professional poker player out of ignorance, just accidentally winning. That was how it felt in my first stand-up appearance. — Jonah Hill

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I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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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

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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. — Jonah Hill

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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

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Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live. — Jonah Hill

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Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately. — Jonah Hill

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I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal. — Jonah Hill

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Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I'm in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think 'Moneyball' represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man. — Jonah Hill

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I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one. — Jonah Hill

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All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know? — Jonah Hill

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

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I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit. — Jonah Hill

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I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions. — Jonah Hill

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I've never been into just really silly stuff. — Jonah Hill

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

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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

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I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy. — Jonah Hill

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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. — Jonah Hill

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'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible. — Jonah Hill

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When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie. — Jonah Hill