Jesse Eisenberg Quotes - Page 4

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• The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mind, Nervous, Theater

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• In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda... coulda... shoulda.

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  Mean, Meals, Bullets

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• The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Zombie, Firsts, Reason

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• Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Independent, Actors, Way

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

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• I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

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  Writing, Worry, People

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• I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

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  Reading, Writing, Play

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• It'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 lot of ways.

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  People, Nerves, World

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• First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Guy, Magic, Rooms

  "Fictional character: Daniel Atlas". "Now You See Me", 2013.

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• I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

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  Skills, Motor

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• When 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 animated movie, you really only have your voice.

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  Expression, Voice, Use

  "Q&A – Jesse Eisenberg Explains How Mark Zuckerberg Led Him to His Role in Rio". Interview with Christian Chung, www.amc.com.

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• 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.

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  Silly, Character, People

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

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• If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.

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  Going Out, Quitting, Ifs

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• My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.

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  People, Feelings, Preparation

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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.

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  Car, Acting, Way

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

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Skills, Acting

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Acting

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

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  Presses

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

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• 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.

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  Views, Play, Watches

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

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• 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.

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  Character, Play, Kind

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

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• [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.

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  Ironic, Skins, Actors

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

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• Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.

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  Pages, Six, Happenings

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• If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

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  Mean, Roles, Looks

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

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

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  Thinking, Acting, Force

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

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• I 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.'

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  Stupid, Hate, Thinking

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