Jesse Eisenberg Quotes - Page 5

I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, 'Let's all go get a donut!' And you're thinking, 'It's the middle of the night,' but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

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.

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

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.

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.

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

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.

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

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

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

I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.

Devils don't come from hell beneath us, they come from the sky.

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

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

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

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

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

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.