"To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.“


-Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

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