Jesse Eisenberg Quotes
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I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping 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 felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.
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When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.
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Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.
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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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The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.
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Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
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I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
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It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.
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In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter.
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My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.
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I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.
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I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.
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I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.
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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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As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.
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I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.
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I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.
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Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.
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Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.
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The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.
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The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.
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I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.