Jesse Eisenberg Quotes
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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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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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Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
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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 don't understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there.
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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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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 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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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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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 purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.
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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'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 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 feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.
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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 feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.
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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 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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I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.
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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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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 have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'
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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.