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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On the Kurds They're the most fucked people on Earth. You know that. They might as well change their name to the Fucks, 'cause they're fucked. We used to be the Kurds, now we're the Fucks!
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I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.
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The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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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.
