Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

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.

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.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you’re not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

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.

The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

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.

I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.

I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'

When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

I think I prioritize other people's opinions of me very highly, which is not necessarily a good thing - it's a thing that causes a lot of anxiety.

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.

I personally don’t feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn’t if I tried anyway.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

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.'

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

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.

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.

I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

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.

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.

I've never worked during the summer. I take summers off.

I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.

My hope is to never act again and just do press.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.

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.

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.

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

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.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.

A lot of times the character's experience is not in accordance with the tone of the movie and it's not really my job to account for the tone of the movie. That's the director's job.

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

When you're on set you don't realize the way something is going to look since you're on the other side of the camera.

Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got to stop and take a picture with everybody.

I tend to prefer the smaller movies because they shoot more efficiently and so you're are able to maintain that momentum of the character a little more easily.