Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry poem. So go ahead... write one. I know you're at least a little bit angry with me. And when you're done with your poem, decipher it as if you'd just found it printed in a textbook and know absolutely nothing about its author. The results can be amazing...and scary. But it's always cheaper than a therapist.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

I just like to go where the material is, whether that's TV, or movies, or the stage. As long as it's great writing, it's pretty much something I can't resist.

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

Acting is a form of confession.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.