Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

You have to like the characters you play.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

I think it's so important when you're playing a character that you can't judge the person you're playing at all. It's a judgment-free zone. You have to just go for it.

There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.