Top 55 Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

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.

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

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

Depression, if it’s an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don’t know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

It’s a struggle for me to watch things I’ve been in because I’m just distracted and self-critical.

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.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

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

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.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won’t accept.

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.

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.

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.

I’m not on Page Six, because I don’t have anything salacious happening in my life… unfortunately.

I’m hardly the most notable person in ‘Zombieland.’ The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

And I’m sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we’ll be debating whether we should get them, and then we’ll all get them.

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.

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.

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that’s just the way I’m wired.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

As for environmentalism, I’m only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it’s hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.

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 purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don’t read any press about myself.

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 don’t attribute an actor’s great success to their own individual performance when it’s something as collaborative as a movie.

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I’m not aware of any others.

When you’re acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It’s impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it’s the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

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.

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

I don’t understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there.

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.

People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.

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

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.

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.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you’re given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

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

I live in New York City, so there’s so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

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.

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

If you’re acting, then there’s a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there’s no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, ‘What a strange thing to say’ – but maybe it’s the right thing to say.

In acting class, you’re trained to express yourself as much as you can.

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

My feeling is… when you show up to a movie set where there’s, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it’ll make you feel more prepared.

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

People think, ‘You’re an actor, you can afford clothes,’ but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you’d want to wear.

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.’

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

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