Quotes from Jesse Eisenberg

I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

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

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.

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

The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

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

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.

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

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.

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.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

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.

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.

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.

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.

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.

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

Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day.

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

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

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