Jesse Eisenberg Quotes
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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 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 write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.
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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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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 follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
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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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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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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 felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.
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Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
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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 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'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.
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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 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'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 have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'
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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 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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There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.