Top 40 Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

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.

I don’t follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early ’90s.

People 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.

As for environmentalism, I’m only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it’s hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.

I’m not on Page Six, because I don’t have anything salacious happening in my life… unfortunately.

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that’s eccentric, it’s totally acceptable – not only that, it’s lauded in some perverse way.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

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.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

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.

I 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 nothing to add to a political conversation because it’s not my area.

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.

When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn’t connect with other people – and, of course, she got a cellphone.

I’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 feel like I’m supposed to act the same way they act and I don’t know how.

It’s very hard to be a playwright because it’s very competitive.

In acting class, you’re trained to express yourself as much as you can.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That’s just me.

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

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

Acting 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, and I kind of find that to be true.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we’re all heroes of our own lives.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors’ experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

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.

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

Who walks around proud of things they’ve done? That’s an obnoxious quality.

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.

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

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don’t know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

Depression, if it’s an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don’t read any press about myself.

Everyone‘s a geek in some way or other. Everyone’s an outsider.

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.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won‘t accept.

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

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.

If you’re acting, then there’s a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there’s no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

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

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.

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they’re not so interested in other people.