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 More Quotes by Jesse Eisenberg More Quotes From Jesse Eisenberg Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives. Jesse Eisenberg hero play character I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others. Jesse Eisenberg female fans No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true. Jesse Eisenberg insult courses compliment 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. Jesse Eisenberg copying successful people 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. Jesse Eisenberg acting struggle thinking Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept. Jesse Eisenberg accepting technology The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience. Jesse Eisenberg reading tables play The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false. Jesse Eisenberg nice-things nice people I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album. Jesse Eisenberg albums theater musical 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. Jesse Eisenberg hands people looks 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 nice writing lying 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. Jesse Eisenberg childhood laughing people 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 grades class firsts 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. Jesse Eisenberg dad mom teacher People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you'd want to wear. Jesse Eisenberg clothes character thinking I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million. Jesse Eisenberg voice years thinking Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting. Jesse Eisenberg compromise acting mean 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. Jesse Eisenberg girlfriend people years I find it very difficult to do normal things without getting approached. Jesse Eisenberg normal-things difficult normal 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 great-success individual actors
