Jesse Eisenberg Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.”
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“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.”
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“Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.”
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“Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.”
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“I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.”
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“The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.”
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“The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.”
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“The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.”
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“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.”
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“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.'”
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“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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“I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.”
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“I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.”
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“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.”
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“I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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