Joseph Gordon-Levitt on feeding the soul, and on the poison of celebrity
Salon.com: Did you consider other careers?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: I went to college. I wanted to have a wide-open future with endless possibilities. [Laughs] It wasn’t so much that there were other careers in particular that I was considering so much as I just wanted to stop acting. I really wanted to move away from home and go to college, and I think it’s the smartest thing I ever did.
Moving to a new place and seeing how you fit in without any of the crutches that hold you up in the old place is so good for the soul, I think, and it was good for mine. Ultimately it brought me back to acting, but I had to find that for myself.
[From "Life's not simple" By Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com - about Gordon-Levitt's new film "The Lookout"; photo from www.thelookout-movie.com]
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[About videotaping some paparazzi photographers who were "neither nice nor polite."]
“I do believe that the myth of ‘Celebrity’ is not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a powerful and fundamental part of a larger movement revolving around greed, apathy and hierarchy that is currently dragging us down, down, down, lower and scarier, and perhaps weaker than we’ve ever, ever been. Smile!”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - from his site http://hitrecord.org/
Related blog posts:
Sylvester Stallone warns against fame addiction
Highly sensitive, and in the spotlight
Also see my article: The Dark Side of Fame
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