Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

Jesse Eisenberg

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• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • World
  • Better
  • Doing

• I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Business
  • Name
  • Consulting

• I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Comedy

• Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Boy

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • War
  • Society

• What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Done
  • Grace

• I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Like

• Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Live
  • Water
  • Quality

• Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Truth
  • Night
  • Sleep

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Team
  • Going
  • Tough

• I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Interested

• When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Fun
  • You
  • Places

• There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • People
  • Great
  • Silence

• In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Want
  • Value
  • Wealth

• When I first agreed to do 'Shark Tank,' they asked me to wear a suit, and I was just like, 'No. I can't. It'll end my career.'

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Career

• Hip-hop is a vehicle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Hip Hop
  • Vehicle

• I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Character

• If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you’re not just a spectator, but you’re actually part of the drama which has him as the central character.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Character
  • Jesus

• Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

  

  Phaedrus
  • Evil
  • Submit
  • Befall

• I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Fun