Quotes from Jesse Eisenberg

I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

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.

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

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

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.

Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

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

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, 'Let's all go get a donut!' And you're thinking, 'It's the middle of the night,' but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

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.

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

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.