78+ Jesse Eisenberg Quotes On Acting, Socialism And Social Justice

Jesse Eisenberg is an American actor best known for his roles in films such as The Social Network, Zombieland, and Now You See Me. He has also starred in several Broadway plays and television series, including Adventureland and The Spoils of Babylon. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his performance in The Social Network. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jesse Eisenberg on acting, life, socialism.

Top 10 Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

1. The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.
2. I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.
3. Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad
4. 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.
5. I find it very difficult to do normal things without getting approached.
6. I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
7. 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.
8. The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.
9. Devils don't come from hell beneath us, they come from the sky.
10. I feel like when I was 13 and I had to go to bar mitzvahs every weekend. This is the same feeling. You have to put on a suit every weekend to go meet with a bunch of Jews.

Jesse Eisenberg Short Quotes

• I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.
• Don't be a hero, live to fight another day.
• My hope is to never act again and just do press.
• I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.
• Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.
• Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.
• The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.
• Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.
• If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.
• No one should be offended - that's not my style.

Jesse Eisenberg Quotes About Acting

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can. — Jesse Eisenberg

Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you step away from a movie for several weeks or months that you start to put things in perspective. — Jesse Eisenberg

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different. — Jesse Eisenberg

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it. — Jesse Eisenberg

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

Actually, acting in bumper cars is terrible, because the really only way to film it and get a close up is to literally mount the camera - this heavy thing on the car and it's just the worst because you can't act at all with a thing on the car. — Jesse Eisenberg

Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible. — Jesse Eisenberg

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. — Jesse Eisenberg

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

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

Jesse Eisenberg Quotes About Facebook

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

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them. — Jesse Eisenberg

Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day. — Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg Quotes About Feel

If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one. — Jesse Eisenberg

Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad. — Jesse Eisenberg

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

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

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable. — Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg Famous Quotes And Sayings

In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda... coulda... shoulda. — Jesse Eisenberg

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

A lot of times the character's experience is not in accordance with the tone of the movie and it's not really my job to account for the tone of the movie. That's the director's job. — Jesse Eisenberg

My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared. — Jesse Eisenberg

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role. — Jesse Eisenberg

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. — Jesse Eisenberg

[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

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

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

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself. — Jesse Eisenberg

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting. — Jesse Eisenberg

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

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

It's a very strange experience to watch yourself in a movie anyway. I most frequently don't do it, but if I was going to do it, I would do it in a private way, not at a public screening at a film festival, which is just an overwhelming experience. — Jesse Eisenberg

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting. — Jesse Eisenberg

I think I prioritize other people's opinions of me very highly, which is not necessarily a good thing - it's a thing that causes a lot of anxiety. — Jesse Eisenberg

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

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

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

First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room. — Jesse Eisenberg

I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting. — Jesse Eisenberg

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too. — Jesse Eisenberg

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

The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody. — Jesse Eisenberg

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

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

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

I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused. — Jesse Eisenberg

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist. — Jesse Eisenberg

When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever. — Jesse Eisenberg

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

I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw. — Jesse Eisenberg

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

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one. — 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

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

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

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

I've never worked during the summer. I take summers off. — 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

Life Lessons by Jesse Eisenberg

1. Jesse Eisenberg's work demonstrates the importance of taking risks and pushing yourself out of your comfort zone in order to grow as an actor.
2. His willingness to take on challenging roles and to explore different genres of film has allowed him to develop a diverse and successful career.
3. His example shows that hard work and dedication to the craft can lead to success, even when faced with obstacles.