Top 120 Jesse Eisenberg Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

103. “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

104. “The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

105. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

106. “When you’re on set you don’t realize the way something is going to look since you’re on the other side of the camera.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

107. “Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn’t take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

108. “I write plays instinctively. I don’t like writing movie scripts.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

109. “I don’t watch the movies I’ve been in. I try to stay as little aware of the final product as possible, because my job doesn’t really change.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

110. “Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of course, with that great talent comes some guilt because, if you come from circumstances that don’t encourage it, it can be really confusing.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

112. “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

113. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

115. “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

116. “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

117. “I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you’re very angry about something, you shouldn’t present it as strongly when you’re acting. But if you’re really angry and writing about it, that’s the best way to get it out and across.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

118. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

119. “I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn’t really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

121. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

122. “Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

123. “When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you’re given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

124. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Jesse Eisenberg

126. “Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can’t.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

127. “I personally don’t feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn’t if I tried anyway.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

128. “The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that’s wonderful.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

129. “Every relationship has a kind of pattern, I guess, and maybe the pattern is more important than the stuff that makes up the pattern.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

130. “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.”

— Jesse Eisenberg

131. “I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I’m not aware of any others.”

— Jesse Eisenberg