Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

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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.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Hero, Character, Play

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

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Fans, Female

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• No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Insult, Compliment, Courses

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• Don't be a hero, live to fight another day.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Hero, Fighting, Another Day

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• Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Smell, People, Poor

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

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Nice, People, Nice Things

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Knocked sideways". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Baby, Thinking, People

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

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  Technology, Accepting

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Privacy settings engaged". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.

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• I think there are probably a lot of actors like me who I think probably struggle to feel comfortable in their own lives, and acting in some ways provides a safe context for them to live out emotions that they possibly repress or live out experiences that they are not afforded by virtue of circumstance.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Struggle, Thinking, Acting

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Character, Way, Approach

  "Jesse Eisenberg Talks Learning Magic, Reuniting with Woody Harrelson, Why He Signed on to the Project, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Group interview, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

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• The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous. And I only have like a tiny, tiny bit of that, and I'm already disgusted by it. But I realize that the only way to be disgusted by fame is to be famous, because otherwise it looks amazing. Then people stop you on the street, and it's like the most annoying thing in the world. The first time it happened it's great, and then the second time you have to shake somebody's hand.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Hands, People, Looks

  "Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 01, 2009.

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• I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

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  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview by Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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

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  Reading, Play, Tables

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• 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.

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  Children, Thinking, House

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• I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

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  Musical, Albums, Theater

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• Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.

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  Mean, Acting, Compromise

  "Exclusive: Jesse Eisenberg Talks 30 MINUTES OR LESS, ZOMBIELAND 2, Woody Allen, THE SOCIAL NETWORK and More". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. August 12, 2011.

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• I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

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  People, Laughing, Childhood

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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

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  Pants, Capri, Seems

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• My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.

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  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Nice, Lying, Writing

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.

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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.

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  Class, Firsts, Grades

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• I find it very difficult to do normal things without getting approached.

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  Normal, Difficult, Normal Things

  "Exclusive: Jesse Eisenberg Talks 30 MINUTES OR LESS, ZOMBIELAND 2, Woody Allen, THE SOCIAL NETWORK and More". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. August 12, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Successful, People, Copying

  "Q&A: Jesse Eisenberg's Best Role Yet". Interview with Calum March, www.esquire.com. September 10, 2013.

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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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  Character, Play, Long

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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.

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  Girlfriend, Years, People

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Privacy settings engaged". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.

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