Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Adam Eisenbergis an American actor, author and playwright. He made his television debut with the short-lived comedy-drama series Get Real. Following his first leading role in the comedy-drama film Roger Dodger, he appeared in the drama film The Emperor's Club, the psychological thriller The Village, the comedy-drama The Squid and the Whaleand the drama The Education of Charlie Banks. In 2006, Eisenberg won the Vail Film Festival Rising Star Award for his role in The Living Wake...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth5 October 1983
CityQueens, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'
I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.
I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.
Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.
Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
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.
I don't understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there.
I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.
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 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.
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.
I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.
I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.