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 actbackstorydifficult share on social
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 feelpersonallyradical Change image and share on social
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 actactoralienate share on social
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 actapplaudcry Change image and share on social
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 actordrawfilm share on social
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 actorattributecollaborative Change image and share on social
I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations. Jesse Eisenberg difficultfamilyfind Change image and share on social
As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental. Jesse Eisenberg actorexperimentalopen Change image and share on social
Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't. Jesse Eisenberg actordictatedread Change image and share on social
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 acceptableactoreccentric Change image and share on social
