Jesse Eisenberg Quotes
Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.
Quotes to Explore
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
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I had a CrossFit trainer for two weeks. I fired him.
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I think being on 'Weeds,' in general, makes it hard to think of me as Nemo anymore.
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Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.
