Jesse Eisenberg Quotes
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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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I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.
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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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In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.
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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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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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The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.
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I don't understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there.
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I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'
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The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.