Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

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

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

Don't be a hero, live to fight another day.

Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

I think there are probably a lot of actors like me who I think probably struggle to feel comfortable in their own lives, and acting in some ways provides a safe context for them to live out emotions that they possibly repress or live out experiences that they are not afforded by virtue of circumstance.

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

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous. And I only have like a tiny, tiny bit of that, and I'm already disgusted by it. But I realize that the only way to be disgusted by fame is to be famous, because otherwise it looks amazing. Then people stop you on the street, and it's like the most annoying thing in the world. The first time it happened it's great, and then the second time you have to shake somebody's hand.

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.

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

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

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

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

I don't understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there.

My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.

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.

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.

I find it very difficult to do normal things without getting approached.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

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.

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.