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 have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

Jesse Eisenberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

Jesse Eisenberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

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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Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

Jesse Eisenberg

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...

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

Jesse Eisenberg

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.'

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

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 t...

Jesse Eisenberg

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.

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Author Bio

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