254 Quotes by Jesse Eisenberg

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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