Jesse Eisenberg Quotes
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The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.
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I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million.
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If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.
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In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.
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I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.
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People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.
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I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.
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Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.
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The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.
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I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.
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I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.
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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.
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People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you'd want to wear.
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Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.
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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.
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I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.
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If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.
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My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.
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I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.
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Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.
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I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
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As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.
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I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, 'Let's all go get a donut!' And you're thinking, 'It's the middle of the night,' but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.
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Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.