Top 120 Jesse Eisenberg Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

52. “I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn’t the norm.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

53. “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

54. “It’s a struggle for me to watch things I’ve been in because I’m just distracted and self-critical.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

55. “To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

56. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

58. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

59. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

61. “The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that’s the first impression it’s going to make. And very often it’s portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

62. “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

63. “I’m not into music – the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

64. “I just can’t – I can’t exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention – I would just withdraw.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

65. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

66. “If you’re afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

67. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

68. “I feel like when I was 13 and I had to go to bar mitzvahs every weekend. This is the same feeling. You have to put on a suit every weekend to go meet with a bunch of Jews.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

69. “My hope is to never act again and just do press.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

70. “I think it’s a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

71. “The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there’s no audience.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

72. “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

73. “I did children’s theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

74. “I have an iPad and I watch three things: ‘The Daily Show,’ ‘60 Minutes,’ and ‘Meet the Press.’”

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

76. “I thought it must have been scary to be an Apatosaurus because he just wanted to be nice but there was probably a lot of pressure to be mean because he was a dinosaur.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

77. “I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

78. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

80. “I live in New York City, so there’s so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

82. “The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don’t have characters that I feel as personally connected to.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

83. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

84. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

85. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

86. “Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won’t accept.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

87. “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

88. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

89. “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

90. “I’m hardly the most notable person in ‘Zombieland.’ The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

92. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

93. “I 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 in a silly, ignorant way.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

94. “The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you’ve prepared for two months.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

95. “I think there’s nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

96. “I don’t attribute an actor’s great success to their own individual performance when it’s something as collaborative as a movie.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

97. “I feel very guilty doing magic because you’re deceiving somebody.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

98. “I don’t go to movies, I don’t own a television, I don’t buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I’m not really aware of popular culture.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

99. “It’s a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

100. “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