Jesse Eisenberg
12 quotes
Biography
"Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept."
"If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there."
"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."
"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 get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work."
"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."
"I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s."
"I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am."
"I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too."
"The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous."
"Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury."
"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."