Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.

I don't watch the movies I've been in. I try to stay as little aware of the final product as possible, because my job doesn't really change.

I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it’s not my area.

I 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.

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.

My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.

When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn't connect with other people - and, of course, she got a cellphone.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, 'Let's all go get a donut!' And you're thinking, 'It's the middle of the night,' but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.

First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

When you're on set you don't realize the way something is going to look since you're on the other side of the camera.

I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

Don't be a hero, live to fight another day.

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

I personally don’t feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn’t if I tried anyway.

I tend to prefer the smaller movies because they shoot more efficiently and so you're are able to maintain that momentum of the character a little more easily.

Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.

I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you'd want to wear.