Jesse Eisenberg Quotes
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Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.
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In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
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As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.
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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.
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To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.
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I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.
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It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.
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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.
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Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.
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Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.
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I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
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I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.
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I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'
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I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.
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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.
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The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.
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If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.
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I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.
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Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day.
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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.
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The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.
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I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.
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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.
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In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.