254 Quotes by Jesse Eisenberg

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

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, ‘What a strange thing to say’ – but maybe it’s the right thing to say.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I’ve never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I’m not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I’m supposed to act the same way they act and I don’t know how.

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