I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.
Jesse EisenbergActually, acting in bumper cars is terrible, because the really only way to film it and get a close up is to literally mount the camera - this heavy thing on the car and it's just the worst because you can't act at all with a thing on the car.
Jesse EisenbergAs an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.
Jesse EisenbergI purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.
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