Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

I was a teenager and it was tough years for me. Being able to bring myself into a character and live in somebody else's world was so important for me emotionally. I couldn't express things well in my normal life. I was so overwhelmed by my emotions.

I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.

If I hadn't had acting, I would probably have imploded.

When I first started making music, it was where I went when I couldn't express myself, when I wasn't able to connect with other people, when I couldn't talk about what I was going through.

It's going to sound cliche, but I started acting as an emotional outlet.

There's times when I'm really shy, so these roles that I get to play, they're how I would love to really be. And that's why I love doing stand-up, because it gives me the freedom to say what I really want to say. I think that's why it's my favorite thing to do.

I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten.

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression. I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was. I could be a ninja, I could be a pirate or I could be in a play y'know.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

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

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

I think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.