Jesse Eisenberg Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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

• 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

  Character, Play, Long

• 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

  Character, Emotional, Connections

• 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

• A lot of times the character's experience is not in accordance with the tone of the movie and it's not really my job to account for the tone of the movie. That's the director's job.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Jobs, Character, Directors

  "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.

• 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

  Character, Long, Plot

  "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.

• I tend to prefer the smaller movies because they shoot more efficiently and so you're are able to maintain that momentum of the character a little more easily.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Character, Momentum, Littles

  "30 Minutes or Less" interview with Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari". Interview with Steven Lebowitz, www.axs.com. August 12, 2011.

• There’s something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it’s taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I’ve been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Silly, Character, People

  "Some Actors Work Both Sides of a Script". Interview with Jason Zinoman, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 2011.

• I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Character, Play, Kind

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

• There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or her own. I got to know one of the writers, Chris Terrio, and we were able to discuss things at length and figure out who this person is to create a real psychology behind what is, perhaps, in a comic book, a less than totally modern psychology. I can only say I've been asked to play an interesting role. A complicated, challenging person.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Real, Book, Character

  "Jesse Eisenberg talks Lex Luthor". www.gamesradar.com. August 29, 2014.

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

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Character, Stories, Turmoil

• 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.

• I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Jobs, Reading, Character

  "Venice star Jesse Eisenberg on fame, film and politics". Interview with Jon Frosch, www.france24.com. January 09, 2013.

• The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Character, Bigs, Feels

• 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 to wear.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Character, Thinking, Clothes

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