Jesse Eisenberg Quotes
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In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
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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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To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.
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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 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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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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I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.
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I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.
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I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.
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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.
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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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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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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.