Jesse Eisenberg Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• 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

  Jobs, People, Acting

• If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Jobs, School, Doctors

• 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.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Fun, Character, Thinking

• My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Jobs, Skills, Acting

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

• I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Writing, Acting, Intense Emotions

• When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Thinking, People, Acting

• The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Safe Environment, Joy, Acting

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

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

  Jesse Eisenberg

  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.

• 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

  Acting, Way, Feels

• It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Unique, Opportunity, Play

  "Richard Ayoade and Jesse Eisenberg on Dostoyevsky and Doppelgänger". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 23, 2014.

• 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.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Lonely, Writing, Long

• Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you step away from a movie for several weeks or months that you start to put things in perspective.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Confused, Perspective, Acting

  "Jesse Eisenberg on Hasidic Ecstasy Dealers, Facebook". Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 11, 2010.

• Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Thinking, Acting, Force

  "Jesse Eisenberg: 'Acting forces me to be social'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

• In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Class, Acting, Express Yourself

  "Actor Jesse Eisenberg Creates A Zuckerberg Profile For The Social Network". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

• 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.

• I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  School, Play, Acting

• Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Thinking, Trying, Acting

• Actually, acting in bumper cars is terrible, because the really only way to film it and get a close up is to literally mount the camera - this heavy thing on the car and it's just the worst because you can't act at all with a thing on the car.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Car, Acting, Way

  "Kristen Stewart & Jesse Eisenberg Visit Adventureland". Interview by Jennifer M. Wood, www.moviemaker.com. August 20, 2009.

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