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Jesse Eisenberg is an American actor born on October 5, 1983. He gained widespread recognition for his portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in the film 'The Social Network', for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Eisenberg's acting career began on stage, and he has since transitioned to film and television.

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“In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter.”

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“It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.”

People World Way Permanent Nerves Stressful Places In The World

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“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.”

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“There’s something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it’s taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I’ve been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.”

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“When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.”

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“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.”

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“I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.”

Character Stories Turmoil

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“I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.”

Ifs Ends Seems Attitude Comfortable Worried Permanent Pessimistic

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“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.”

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“I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.”

Knows Moments Feelings Actors Be Good Wrecks

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“To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.”

Criticize Telephones

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“I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.”

Way Persons Actors Notable Zombieland

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“I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'”

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“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.”

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“I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.”

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“I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.”

Ifs Thinking Children Helping Feelings House Sitting Guilty More Time Sitting Around Tutor Feeling Bad

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“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.”

People Years Turns Courses Five Girlfriend Five Years My Girlfriend Cellphone

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“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.”

Feels Feelings Jew Bars Bunch Suits Weekend Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

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“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.”

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“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.”

Ifs Way Feels Acting Comfortable Behave

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“I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.”

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

Opportunity New York Driving

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“I personally don’t feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn’t if I tried anyway.”

Ifs Needs Feels Sake Radical

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“I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.”

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“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.”

Writing Long Acting Amount Lonely Time Off I'm Lonely

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“In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.”

Acting Class Express Yourself Acting Classes

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“In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.”

People New York

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

Way Shows Actors Harder

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

Play Moments Reading Audience Tables

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“The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.”

Way Being Famous Turned Off

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“Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.”

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“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.”

Actors Interesting Roles Watches Smallest

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“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.”

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“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.”

Ifs Way Shows Actors Late Acceptable Eccentric

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“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.”

Thinking World Firsts Home Night Worst Stage Goes On Sitting Worst Things

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

Ifs Looks Character Roles Emotional Connections Emotional Connection

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“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.”

People Ifs Thinking World Might Acting Impossible Agree Reception

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About the Author

Born: October 5, 1983
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 144

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