Jesse EisenbergPeople ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.371Humanity
Jesse EisenbergThe movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.362LifeTime
Jesse EisenbergI'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.374Reflection
Jesse EisenbergI feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.353Time
Jesse EisenbergThe ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way. ✨ Jesse Eisenberg Talks Learning Magic, Reuniting with Woody Harrelson, Why … ▶343Thought
Jesse EisenbergI don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.355Life
Jesse EisenbergLook, 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 … ▶333ReadingTime
Jesse EisenbergI think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major c… ▶346ThoughtTime
Jesse EisenbergWhen you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an anima… ▶3710Philosophy
Jesse EisenbergNo compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.336Truth
Jesse EisenbergI grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things i… ▶314Politics
Jesse EisenbergI'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.347Thought
Jesse EisenbergIf you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.337Death
Jesse EisenbergWhen you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing… ▶272Reading
Jesse EisenbergI've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I… ▶3510Humanity
Jesse EisenbergI 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 … ▶316LovePolitics
Jesse EisenbergI 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.'261Thought
Jesse EisenbergI 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 arbitrar… ▶294DeathThought
Jesse EisenbergI prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.261Life
Jesse EisenbergI 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. 306Humor
Jesse EisenbergI write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.339Truth
Jesse EisenbergI don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.251Love
Jesse EisenbergThere 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 w… ▶3410Reading
Jesse EisenbergI feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody. ✨ Jesse Eisenberg Talks Learning Magic, Reuniting with Woody Harrelson, Why He Signed on to the Project, an… ▶318Hope
Jesse EisenbergIt'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 rea… ▶318HumanityTruth
Jesse EisenbergIt'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 l… ▶231Humanity
Jesse EisenbergI get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.297Truth
Jesse EisenbergI 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. ✨ Jesse Eisenberg: Knocked sid… ▶231Time
Jesse EisenbergActing 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, … ▶287HumanityTruth
Jesse EisenbergThe more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false. ✨ Jesse Eisenberg: Knocked sideways. Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 201… ▶309Humanity
