Jesse Eisenberg Quotes
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If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.
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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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As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.
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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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The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.
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I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.
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I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.
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I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.
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I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.
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I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
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I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'
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When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.
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I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.
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When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn't connect with other people - and, of course, she got a cellphone.
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I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how.
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I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.
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The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.
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I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
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I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.
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I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.
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I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.
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I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.
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Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.