73+ Jonah Hill Quotes (Funny, Quirky And Charismatic)

Jonah Hill is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He is best known for his roles in films such as Superbad, Knocked Up, 21 Jump Street, and The Wolf of Wall Street. He has also appeared in a number of other films, including Moneyball, This Is the End, and War Dogs.

Top 10 Jonah Hill Quotes

1. It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.
2. I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."
3. If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.
• I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.
• Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don't understand them.
• I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.
• When you create something you're free to explore it however you want to do it.
• I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.
• I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess.
• You just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility.
• The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.
• I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

Jonah Hill Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Jonah Hill

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

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

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

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

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

Life Lessons by Jonah Hill

1. Jonah Hill has shown that hard work and dedication can lead to success, no matter what your background or upbringing.
2. He has also demonstrated that it is possible to reinvent yourself and take on new challenges, even if you are already established in one field.
3. Finally, his willingness to take risks and try new things has been an inspiration to many, showing that it is possible to make a difference in the world.