Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think. Jesse Eisenberg More Quotes by Jesse Eisenberg More Quotes From Jesse Eisenberg 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 readingplaywriting 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 actingjobspeople 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 mistakewritingfather I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards. Jesse Eisenberg awardscitiesthinking 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 voiceexpressionuse 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 hatestupidthinking There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or her own. I got to know one of the writers, Chris Terrio, and we were able to discuss things at length and figure out who this person is to create a real psychology behind what is, perhaps, in a comic book, a less than totally modern psychology. I can only say I've been asked to play an interesting role. A complicated, challenging person. Jesse Eisenberg realcharacterbook 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 humorousplaysilly The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded. Jesse Eisenberg safe-environmentactingjoy I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me. Jesse Eisenberg kindplaycharacter 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 viewsplaywatches Devils don't come from hell beneath us, they come from the sky. Jesse Eisenberg helldevilsky 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 radicalsakeneeds The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous. Jesse Eisenberg turned-offbeing-famousway I've never worked during the summer. I take summers off. Jesse Eisenberg summer 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 first-impressiondrawingpeople My hope is to never act again and just do press. Jesse Eisenberg presses My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together. Jesse Eisenberg actingskillsjobs 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 actorsshowsway [As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar. Jesse Eisenberg ironicactorsskins
