Jesse Eisenberg Quotes - Page 2

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• I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million.

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  Thinking, Voice, Years

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• 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.

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  Character, Thinking, Clothes

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• I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

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  Actors, Individual, Great Success

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• All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

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  Way, Guilty, Pleasure

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• 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.

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  Writing, Acting, Intense Emotions

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• I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

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  Queens, Children, School

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

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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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  Play, Suggestions, Wonderful

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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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  Mother, Helping Others, People

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• I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.

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  Attitude, Pessimistic, Worried

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• I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

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  Feelings, Actors, Wrecks

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

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• I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

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  Privilege, Homesick

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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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  Hands, Littles, Cameras

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

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• I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

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  Jobs, Eye, Information

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• As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

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  Stupid, Looks, Actors

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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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  Humorous, Silly, Play

  "Jesse Eisenberg On Set Interview 30 MINUTES OR LESS". Group interview, collider.com. May 10, 2011.

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• As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

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  Emotional, Feelings, Trying

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Trying, Acting

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• 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.

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  Real, Book, Character

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

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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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  Writing, Unique, Actors

  "Jesse Eisenberg On ‘Why Stop Now,’ Writing Plays & Jeremy Lin". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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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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  Fun, Character, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Character, Emotional, Connections

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Reading, Character

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

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• Look, 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. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Interviews, Looks, Use

  "Gold Derby nuggets: 'Social Network' star isn't fan of Facebook | 'The Hobbit' hobbled". "The Daily Beast", goldderby.latimes.com. September 27, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Safe Environment, Joy, Acting

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

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• I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

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  New York, Children, Cities

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