Jonathan Levine quote: "I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new take on it is simply, 'I hope people like it!' I'm not going to be looking at the tomato meter for at least a year! I was very lucky on '50/50' that most critics really liked it."

I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
JONATHAN LEVINE

I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.
JONATHAN LEVINE

There are things that I can tell my friends that I just can't tell my family, just as far as how...
JONATHAN LEVINE

I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we...
JONATHAN LEVINE

I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,'...
JONATHAN LEVINE

Right after 'The Wackness' came out, it was a really exciting time, and then it was a bit di...
JONATHAN LEVINE

As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's.....
JONATHAN LEVINE

I like to branch out as much as I can, but I feel like the movies that are closest to my heart are &...
JONATHAN LEVINE

To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagine...
JONATHAN LEVINE

I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very m...
JONATHAN LEVINE

I've been a huge fan of Hal Ashby forever. And I think that the distinctive thing about 'Com...
JONATHAN LEVINE

I'm always walking around with headphones on, creating my own soundtracks to whatever the day is...
JONATHAN LEVINE

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being o...
JONATHAN LEVINE

I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., eve...
JONATHAN LEVINE

I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew ...
JONATHAN LEVINE

'Purple Rain' is probably the best soundtrack.
JONATHAN LEVINE

I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific characte...
JONATHAN LEVINE

For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to t...
JONATHAN LEVINE

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.
TED LEVINE

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
TED LEVINE

Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed...
TED LEVINE

I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it...
SAMM LEVINE

I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
SAMM LEVINE

I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
SAMM LEVINE

I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some ...
SAMM LEVINE

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people pri...
SAMM LEVINE

I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film...
SAMM LEVINE

One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any ho...
SAMM LEVINE

Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
JACK LEVINE

Impulses are hard to come by these days.
JACK LEVINE

This acting was very hard work.
JACK LEVINE

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
JACK LEVINE

I'm an outsider.
JACK LEVINE

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
JACK LEVINE

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
JACK LEVINE

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
JACK LEVINE

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
JACK LEVINE

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
JACK LEVINE

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
JACK LEVINE

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opp...
JACK LEVINE

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
JACK LEVINE

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't...
ADAM LEVINE

Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true...
ADAM LEVINE

I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm...
ADAM LEVINE

What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm? What is a thought, compared to the mind? Our unity is...
KEN LEVINE

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want...
ADAM LEVINE

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with th...
ADAM LEVINE

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.
ADAM LEVINE

Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel...
ADAM LEVINE

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people...
ADAM LEVINE

Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
ADAM LEVINE

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
ADAM LEVINE

People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy fr...
ADAM LEVINE

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
ADAM LEVINE

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
ADAM LEVINE

I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
ADAM LEVINE

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
ADAM LEVINE

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would rea...
ADAM LEVINE

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feeli...
ADAM LEVINE

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
ADAM LEVINE

Nothing wrong with making money.
ADAM LEVINE

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
ADAM LEVINE

Men need to live and breathe women.
ADAM LEVINE

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
ADAM LEVINE

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they...
ADAM LEVINE

It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
ADAM LEVINE

I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
ADAM LEVINE

Chase concocted the fraud with Enron. Chase was right in bed with Enron to structure these transacti...
ALAN LEVINE

You've got to believe you can do it.
ALAN LEVINE

Transparency in waiting times is much more relevant in an emergency. It's more important than infect...
ALAN LEVINE

Those who want to defend the current system are defending the indefensible. Only 4 percent of all wo...
ALAN LEVINE

We do want to move to a market-based system but understand it is a controlled market system.
ALAN LEVINE

Those changes failed to pass the legislature last year. We're hopeful they will pass this year, give...
ALAN LEVINE

Obviously, if everyone has contracted with the same ambulance service, there could be serious proble...
ALAN LEVINE

Time had run out. We got fantastic cooperation . . . and were able to get the patients to safety.
ALAN LEVINE

That would not have gotten people out of harm's way. His position was that it's expensive to even mo...
ALAN LEVINE

The agency has to have some flexibility in terms of administration, ... The waiver is approved. It's...
ALAN LEVINE

I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhaust...
GHITA LEVINE

All I needed to do was sing the lyrics that had already been written. I don't know those guys; they ...
ADAM LEVINE

To be totally honest with you, I actually didn't meet them. Technically it wasn't so much of a colla...
ADAM LEVINE

I love those guys. They're crazy and fresh and interesting. And the s**t that they do is pretty uniq...
ADAM LEVINE

that he thinks, he believes he is dead.
ADAM LEVINE

You can't find anybody in Washington that doesn't like Katie. That's nearly impossible to do. I can ...
ADAM LEVINE

It all sounded questionable. ... I just hope if it's a false accusation, that the amount of media at...
ADAM LEVINE

There was a rumor that Jessie and I were sleeping together and it is not true. I'm just going to say...
ADAM LEVINE

I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular,
ADAM LEVINE

The last time we were in New Orleans was one of my fondest memories of touring. ... So it was partic...
ADAM LEVINE

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and wha...
STEPHEN LEVINE

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
STEPHEN LEVINE

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.
JAMES LEVINE

We are all dead men on leave.
EUGENE LEVINE

People obviously do care about celebrities and celebrity culture and particularly how fat or thin th...
ALEX LEVINE

We put a trainer with them, in their head and in the gym that they already work out in.
ALEX LEVINE

The company tries to introduce foods from around the world, ... Every grain of rice looks like a jew...
ALEX LEVINE

We set it up with the color varied and the dishes angled for variety,
ALEX LEVINE

We always have one vegetarian menu,
ALEX LEVINE

Almost everyone in the kitchen has worked in a restaurant or been to cooking school, ... One person ...
ALEX LEVINE

All 'leadership' at Whole Foods go through a two-hour training program in organic certification stan...
ALEX LEVINE

Can a Wraith eat an Ori?
ALEX LEVINE

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, suga...
ALEX LEVINE

Owen nodded. “Then let’s gear up and get out there.” And, please God, let them all come home s...
ELAINE LEVINE

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
MICHAEL LEVINE

Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, suga...
ALEX LEVINE

Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.
MICHAEL LEVINE

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
JAMES LEVINE

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
JAMES LEVINE

Over time, we look forward to introducing new advertising experiences and business experiences on In...
MARNE LEVINE

Good comedy is ageless.
TED LEVINE

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.
ADAM LEVINE

I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading &...
EMILY LEVINE

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is no...
STEPHEN LEVINE

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
STEPHEN LEVINE

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, ment...
STEPHEN LEVINE

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)
STEPHEN LEVINE

The wonderful thing about Martha's work is that it showed such sweet empathy with her characters. Th...
ARTHUR LEVINE

I will consider what disciplinary actions are appropriate in this case pending the findings.
ARTHUR LEVINE

I think people come here not just because of the building, ... They come here because of the institu...
ARTHUR LEVINE

On most of our campuses this is a very scary moment. For us as a group, it's a time at which the ans...
ARTHUR LEVINE

I think I'll have complex feelings about [the last book], ... It's clearly the series that I will be...
ARTHUR LEVINE

We're quite excited about all of these terrific young people, ... It also positions us very competit...
ARTHUR LEVINE

He's there with an open pocketbook, but it's more than that. Frank is always there.
ARTHUR LEVINE

Don Burke's interests, experience and expertise are extremely relevant, and I can think of no other ...
ARTHUR LEVINE

First, I felt just shock, and then I felt there's no way, just no way, Dumbledore couldn't be dead, ...
ARTHUR LEVINE

It's the best thing we have right now. Research shows us that children in national board certified t...
ARTHUR LEVINE

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare...
JAMES LEVINE

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusio...
JAMES LEVINE

When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to thin...
EMILY LEVINE

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big ...
ADAM LEVINE

Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
ADAM LEVINE

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense w...
PHILIP LEVINE

I think the main [track] will help him just being able to close. Maybe [he's] not good enough, but I...
BRUCE LEVINE

The more I read about this episode, the more I realized how important it was to our understanding of...
BRUCE LEVINE

The story of the Civil War is usually told as a story of two white armies and two white governments....
BRUCE LEVINE

There are a lot of revelations in this book. The proposals discussed here provided an early glimmeri...
BRUCE LEVINE

Only a tiny handful of slaves responded to the Confederate proposal. They viewed it as an act of des...
BRUCE LEVINE

Many people were impacted by hurricanes, which made it difficult to serve customers on a consistent ...
BRIAN LEVINE

South Florida is our home. It's where we've grown from one store to more than 1,000.
BRIAN LEVINE

Office Depot values its relationship with the federal government and is pleased to resolve these iss...
BRIAN LEVINE

We knew it was going to have a devastating impact on our business, employees and our customers. We w...
BRIAN LEVINE

We're still assessing the damage to stores.
BRIAN LEVINE

We'll give it a good shot. We could do well or we could get killed.
CAROL LEVINE

I've been teaching tennis for 25 years.
CAROL LEVINE

You make a lot of adjustments in the early years, and it gets easier.
CAROL LEVINE

It is a safe assumption,
CAROL LEVINE

Because men who do any significant kind of caregiving are often seen by family and friends as heroic...
CAROL LEVINE

Being thrust into the role of caregiver without any preparation is difficult under any circumstances...
CAROL LEVINE

They are not seen as doing anything but helping out, as kids are supposed to do.
CAROL LEVINE

This is a tremendous sense of guilt and burden that children should not have to bear.
CAROL LEVINE

We had no jobs, no place to live. At his first job he worked for $400 a month.
CAROL LEVINE

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
PHILIP LEVINE

This partnership demonstrates how health status can be improved through education, coordination of c...
ALAN LEVINE

going to be very audacious and look to a lot of fringe players to get him back on the map and maximi...
MICHAEL LEVINE

People want to connect over shared passions and interests. They're seeking inspiration. We see t...
MARNE LEVINE

This is from before she was a porn star, when she was just a horny, little teenager from New Jersey ...
HOWARD LEVINE

After conferring with Gov. Bush, I have directed Florida Medicaid to ensure each of Florida's most v...
ALAN LEVINE

I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is...
EMILY LEVINE

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, c...
PHILIP LEVINE

We understand the sensitivity of this issue, particularly among our Muslim viewers. We feel we can r...
CATHY LEVINE

Do we call that normal?
BARRY LEVINE

We knew this was always a possibility. There's still a possibility that he could resign with the Dol...
DAVID LEVINE

You pass by a car wreck and everybody looks. You may cover your face but you are looking through you...
JAMIE LEVINE

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)
STEPHEN LEVINE

Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure...
ADAM LEVINE

What I've tried to do . . . is create a whole model that got away from test scores and avoided label...
MEL LEVINE

It is a dream come true. I see the excitement on the students' faces and can only imagine the possib...
ABBY LEVINE

While the 'insubstantial part' test is the default, it's usually not the best option for most organi...
ABBY LEVINE

Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, ...
PHILIP LEVINE

We don't have them doing it on the sofa.
JENNIE LEVINE

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.
JAMES LEVINE

The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feel...
ADAM LEVINE

The weather is mixed. We're kind of waiting for a spell of good weather, which is why we're waiting ...
ALISON LEVINE

We've -- as a team -- been as high as 24,000 feet, and we all had pretty strong, banging headaches a...
ALISON LEVINE

There's a lot of reasons why we're doing this. One is we really just wanted to send a very strong me...
ALISON LEVINE

This is a bouncing number.
DAVID LEVINE

This study is important to help investors, managers, and policy-makers to understand the crucial que...
DAVID LEVINE

Now I know why the last owner must have sold the place - they should have done something about this ...
DAVID LEVINE

I tried to get in earlier today and I was told that after 3 a.m. (Tuesday) they weren't letting anyo...
DAVID LEVINE

My philosophy is that politicians should be jumped on as often as possible.
DAVID LEVINE

For the individuals who are participating, the families, the children, the goldfish, it's a very exc...
CHARLEY LEVINE

Nick Kristof has waged an almost single-handed campaign against the atrocities. If I was Nick Kristo...
IAIN LEVINE

is not a bold proposal.
BARRY LEVINE

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relativel...
JAMES LEVINE

Let's say I live to be eighty - I'm seventy-one now - nothing I do between now and eighty is going t...
PHILIP LEVINE

Going into the season, I definitely thought our defense was our strong point, but our offense has be...
BEN LEVINE

We also have a solid group of seniors who have played together for at least five or six years.
BEN LEVINE

I think we were getting the shots we wanted. They just weren't falling. The past two times against t...
BEN LEVINE

His record at the hospital is exquisite and he presents no danger to himself or others.
BARRY LEVINE

The government resorts to fear itself. ... Irrational fear is not a legal basis to denying the next ...
BARRY LEVINE

All the experts have agreed the next step ... is conditional release.
BARRY LEVINE

[Regarding his interactions with women,] was Mr. Hinckley clumsy? I don't know, ... But he did nothi...
BARRY LEVINE

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state and when I get on the mat to d...
ADAM LEVINE

There was no sale of drugs. Even the prosecution said they (the students and Morales) were using dru...
ARNOLD LEVINE

She has done an outstanding job as superintendent. She has selected excellent people to work around ...
ARNOLD LEVINE

It goes to the heart of the charter . . .. Can we be charged with the act of uttering (a forgery) wh...
ARNOLD LEVINE

I suspect there may very well be political motivation in the prosecution of my client.
ARNOLD LEVINE

I think not dating reduces drama and kids are just too young emotionally to handle drama, ... Encour...
ROBERT LEVINE

[Hoffman] is an amazing human being. It's like a lifetime has just ended.
LARRY LEVINE

This makes it a lot easier to find next-of-kin in the event of an emergency and also finding any med...
MARK LEVINE

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.
JAMES LEVINE

I like the warmth in the people. They love to meet foreigners. People take you into their lives and ...
DANIEL LEVINE

I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new take on it is simply, 'I hope people like it!' I'm not going to be looking at the tomato meter for at least a year! I was very lucky on '50/50' that most critics really liked it.

Jonathan Levine

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