Jesse Eisenberg quotes

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah. (Jesse Eisenberg)
I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work. View quote
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I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s. View quote
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Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept. View quote
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The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way. View quote
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The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience. View quote
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I don't understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there. View quote
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I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album. View quote
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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. (Jesse Eisenberg)
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. View quote
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Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone. View quote
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The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Jesse Eisenberg)
The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others. View quote
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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. View quote
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