Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.

I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.

Much of my music is inspired by what I heard at picnics and weddings and bar mitzvahs.

You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

One must pass through the network of influence. One is obligated to be influenced, and one accepts this influence very naturally. From the start, one doesn't realize this. The first thing to know: one doesn't realize one is influenced. One thinks he is already liberated, and one is far from it!

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.

I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup.

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

We have been obliged to respond to the compulsions of our society.

How can I do this and leave the clergy, the churches of God, the empire, and all of the people? What will the world think of me? … No my lords, no! I will die here with you.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

When I was young, I just tried to please everybody.