I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.
Jesse EisenbergThe happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.
Jesse EisenbergI think there are probably a lot of actors like me who I think probably struggle to feel comfortable in their own lives, and acting in some ways provides a safe context for them to live out emotions that they possibly repress or live out experiences that they are not afforded by virtue of circumstance.
Jesse Eisenberg