Top 120 Jesse Eisenberg Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don’t read any press about myself.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

52. “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

53. “No one should be offended – that’s not my style.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

54. “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.’”

— Jesse Eisenberg

55. “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

56. “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

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

66. “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

67. “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

68. “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

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

70. “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

71. “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

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

75. “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

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

77. “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

78. “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

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

81. “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

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

85. “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

86. “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

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

88. “Lies are for adults who are sad in their lives.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

90. “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

91. “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

92. “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

93. “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

94. “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

95. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

96. “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

97. “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

98. “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

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

100. “I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.”

— Jesse Eisenberg