Roles Quotes by Jesse Eisenberg

8 Roles quotes by Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg’s eight brief reflections on roles capture his witty, thoughtful style in a compact set. It’s a quick, engaging glimpse that feels like a brief chat.

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When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just…

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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…

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It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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I was doing interviews for several months about the movie, and people would always ask me, Do you have a Facebook page? And I…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal…

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I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

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I don't watch the movies I've been in. I try to stay as little aware of the final product as possible, because my job…

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Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of course, with…

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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,…

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I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told…

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I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or…

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