Latest Jesse Eisenberg Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

• I've never worked during the summer. I take summers off.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Summer

  "Adventureland - Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Kings, New York, Confused

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

• If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Sleep, Night, Shows

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

• No one should be offended - that's not my style.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Style, Should, Offended

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

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

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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

• Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  People, Way, Made

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

• 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.

• [As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Ironic, Skins, Actors

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

• 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.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  People, Laughing, Childhood

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

• 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.

• I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Views, Play, Watches

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

• My hope is to never act again and just do press.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Presses

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• It's a very strange experience to watch yourself in a movie anyway. I most frequently don't do it, but if I was going to do it, I would do it in a private way, not at a public screening at a film festival, which is just an overwhelming experience.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Watches, Festivals, Way

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

• 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.

• 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.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

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

• When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mind, Trying, Roles

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

• 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.

• 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.

• The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Nice, People, Want

  "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.

• Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got to stop and take a picture with everybody.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Needs, Generations, Photograph

  "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.

• 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.