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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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“I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.”

Thinking Actors Rooms Insecure Comforting

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“I think there are probably a lot of actors like me who I think probably struggle to feel comfortable in their own lives, and acting in some ways provides a safe context for them to live out emotions that they possibly repress or live out experiences that they are not afforded by virtue of circumstance.”

Thinking Way Feels Actors Acting Emotion Struggle Virtue Circumstances Safe Comfortable Like Me

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“[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.”

Way Persons Actors Skins Intention Obligation Ironic Initials Promoting Radar

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“There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or her own. I got to know one of the writers, Chris Terrio, and we were able to discuss things at length and figure out who this person is to create a real psychology behind what is, perhaps, in a comic book, a less than totally modern psychology. I can only say I've been asked to play an interesting role. A complicated, challenging person.”

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

Way Actors Independent Studios Dread

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“As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.”

Looks Actors Stupid

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“As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.”

Trying Feelings Actors Emotional Authenticity Resonance

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“I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.”

Actors Individual Performances Attributes Great Success Individual Performance

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“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.”

Two Actors Waiting Months Scene Prepared Frustrating Trailers Two Months Movie Actors

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“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.”

People Ifs Kind Jobs Actors Acting Being True Isolated Isolated Places

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“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.”

Feels Writing Actors Position Unique Dialogue Rhythm Good Writing Memorizing

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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.”

People Firsts Different Film Turns Actors Drawing Impression Posters First Impression Portraying

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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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“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.”

People Hard Reason Facts Body Faces Actors Successful Being Successful Copies Copying

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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 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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“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.”

People Thinking Want Trying Play Character Might Film Actors Difficult Projects Clothes

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Born: October 5, 1983
Known for: Actor
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