Jesse Eisenberg Quotes
The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.
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Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.
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We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.
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The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.
