Top 100 Eisenberg Quotes
#1. shot or worse. I needed a plan. So nobody had ever successfully escaped from Eisenberg Correctional. I was willing to bet they'd never had a prisoner like me, but then again, that was probably what every other would-be escapee thought before he ate a bullet.
Craig Schaefer
#2. I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.
Jesse Eisenberg
#3. Because going through a hard life with someone else is better than going through an easy life alone.
Jesse Eisenberg
#4. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#5. It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.
Deborah Eisenberg
#6. Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you step away from a movie for several weeks or months that you start to put things in perspective.
Jesse Eisenberg
#7. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#8. Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of course, with that great talent comes some guilt because, if you come from circumstances that don't encourage it, it can be really confusing.
Jesse Eisenberg
#9. I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.
Deborah Eisenberg
#10. Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
Jesse Eisenberg
#11. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#12. Just think! Garden, garden, garden, garden, garden, two happy people, and it could have gone on forever! They knew, they'd been told, but they ate it anyway, and from there on out, 'family!' Shame, fear, jobs, mortality, envy, murder ... "
"Well," William said brightly, "and sex.
Deborah Eisenberg
#13. I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.
Jesse Eisenberg
#14. The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.
Jesse Eisenberg
#15. She has that tough little rich girl look, the look that says to suitors: My heart belongs to Daddy, the son of a bitch.
Evan Eisenberg
#16. I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do what you love.
Tina Roth-Eisenberg
#17. If you're wondering, is this book for me? Well, if you're the kind of reader who orders another round just to see if you can seal the deal with the depressed bass player because "Hey! I'm sad too! We have so much in common!" then the answer is yes.
Ophira Eisenberg
#18. 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 yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.
Jesse Eisenberg
#20. I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.
Jesse Eisenberg
#21. If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.
Jesse Eisenberg
#22. It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.
Deborah Eisenberg
#23. It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.
Deborah Eisenberg
#24. I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.
Jesse Eisenberg
#25. A lot of times the character's experience is not in accordance with the tone of the movie and it's not really my job to account for the tone of the movie. That's the director's job.
Jesse Eisenberg
#26. I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.
Deborah Eisenberg
#27. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#28. It is never too late to make a difference in the lives of others. Believe in yourself and others will naturally believe in you.
Alan Eisenberg
#29. The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.
Deborah Eisenberg
#30. I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.
Deborah Eisenberg
#32. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#33. But kids think differently than adults think. Adults have spent so many years thinking more and more like each other because the more you live with other people the less you think like yourself and the more you think like them. But kids are new people so we still think more normally.
Jesse Eisenberg
#34. The planes struck, tearing through the curtain of that blue September morning, exposing the dark world that lay right behind it, of populations ruthlessly exploited, inflamed with hatred, and tired of waiting for change to happen by.
Deborah Eisenberg
#35. The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.
Jesse Eisenberg
#36. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#37. Every relationship has a kind of pattern, I guess, and maybe the pattern is more important than the stuff that makes up the pattern.
Jesse Eisenberg
#38. I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.
Jesse Eisenberg
#39. I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.
Jesse Eisenberg
#40. It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.
Deborah Eisenberg
#41. I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
Deborah Eisenberg
#42. I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche.
Deborah Eisenberg
#43. I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.
Jesse Eisenberg
#44. I don't understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there.
Jesse Eisenberg
#46. 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 guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.
Jesse Eisenberg
#47. It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.
Jesse Eisenberg
#49. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#50. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#51. If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.
Jesse Eisenberg
#52. I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel.
Deborah Eisenberg
#53. I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.
Jesse Eisenberg
#54. Art is inherently subversive. It's destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.
Deborah Eisenberg
#55. I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.
Jesse Eisenberg
#56. Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height
Leon Eisenberg
#57. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#58. I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.
Jesse Eisenberg
#59. If God is all-powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He is all good, then He cannot be all-powerful. And neither can you be.
Jesse Eisenberg
#60. Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.
Larry Eisenberg
#61. As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.
Jesse Eisenberg
#62. It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.
Jesse Eisenberg
#63. I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw.
Jesse Eisenberg
#64. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#65. We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.
Deborah Eisenberg
#66. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#67. Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.
Tina Roth-Eisenberg
#68. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#69. In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.
Jesse Eisenberg
#70. I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It's not something to be approached casually.
Deborah Eisenberg
#71. I think I prioritize other people's opinions of me very highly, which is not necessarily a good thing - it's a thing that causes a lot of anxiety.
Jesse Eisenberg
#72. I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.
Jesse Eisenberg
#73. When you're on set you don't realize the way something is going to look since you're on the other side of the camera.
Jesse Eisenberg
#74. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#75. It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.
Deborah Eisenberg
#76. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#77. Enthusiasm is my superpower. One might say that confidence yields the same result. I disagree. Confidence is about yourself, enthusiasm is about something else. Confidence is impressive, but enthusiasm is infectious. Confidence is serious, enthusiasm is fun.
Tina Roth-Eisenberg
#79. Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It's going to hold.
Deborah Eisenberg
#80. I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.
Deborah Eisenberg
#81. It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.
Jesse Eisenberg
#82. There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain.
David Eisenberg
#83. It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.
Deborah Eisenberg
#84. I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.
Deborah Eisenberg
#85. As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.
Jesse Eisenberg
#86. I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous thing to say in an interview, but I came for the anonymity particularly.
Deborah Eisenberg
#87. I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.
Deborah Eisenberg
#88. I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.
Deborah Eisenberg
#89. Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and ... the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.
Deborah Eisenberg
#90. I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
Jesse Eisenberg
#91. I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.
Deborah Eisenberg
#92. I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.
Jesse Eisenberg
#93. Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.
Deborah Eisenberg
#94. First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.
Jesse Eisenberg
#95. 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.
Jesse Eisenberg
#96. It's a very strange experience to watch yourself in a movie anyway. I most frequently don't do it, but if I was going to do it, I would do it in a private way, not at a public screening at a film festival, which is just an overwhelming experience.
Jesse Eisenberg
#97. The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.
Jesse Eisenberg
#98. I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'
Jesse Eisenberg
#99. Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.
Jesse Eisenberg
#100. I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'
Jesse Eisenberg
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