Jesse Eisenberg

“Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.”

“I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.”

“As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.”

“The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.”

“When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.”

“Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.”

“I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.”

“I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, 'Let's all go get a donut!' And you're thinking, 'It's the middle of the night,' but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.”

“I'm not on Page Six, because I don't have anything salacious happening in my life... unfortunately.”

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

“I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.”

“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.”

“If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.”

“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.”

“The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.”

“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.”

“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.”