Quotes by Jesse Eisenberg

About Jesse Eisenberg:

Jesse Adam Eisenberg is an American actor, playwright and humorist. He made his debut role with the comedy-drama television series Get Real (1999–2000). After his first leading role in the comedy-drama film Roger Dodger (2002), he appeared in the drama film The Emperor's Club (2002), the psychological thriller The Village (2004), the comedy-drama The Squid and the Whale (2005), the dark comedy The Living Wake (2007) and the drama The Education of Charlie Banks (2007). In 2007, Eisenberg won the Vail Film Festival Rising Star Award for his role as Mills Joquin in The Living Wake.
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I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

Jesse Eisenberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With...

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

Jesse Eisenberg

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

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.

Jesse Eisenberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg

Author Bio

  • NameJesse Eisenberg
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornOctober 5, 1983
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Voice Actor