Eisenberg Quotes & Sayings

the problem with most brand stories is that they're told by the wrong people. — Bryan Eisenberg

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others. — Jesse Eisenberg

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time. — Jesse Eisenberg

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. — Jesse Eisenberg

Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations. — Brenda Peterson

It is never too late to make a difference in the lives of others. Believe in yourself and others will naturally believe in you. — Alan Eisenberg

Writing this book afforded me the opportunity to find out and to honor these creatures in stories and in science. I'm grateful to all the grizzly bears, wolves, wolverines, cougars, lynx, and jaguars who live along the Carnivore Way for your big lessons about wildness and why it matters in our rapidly changing world. Long may you run. This — Cristina Eisenberg

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily. — Deborah Eisenberg

Effective content marketing is about mastering the art of storytelling. Facts tell, but stories sell. — Bryan Eisenberg

The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy. — Deborah Eisenberg

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection. — Deborah Eisenberg

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story. — Jesse Eisenberg

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in. — Jesse Eisenberg

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical. — Jesse Eisenberg

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable. — Jesse Eisenberg

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it. — Jesse Eisenberg

I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am. — Jesse Eisenberg

When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you've done is shattering. One of the advantages of having experience as a writer - and there aren't many, in face I can't think of any other - is that you know you can make the horrible thing better, then you can make it better again, then you can make it better again. And you may not be able to make it good, but at least it's not going to be what you're looking at now. — Deborah Eisenberg

Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting. — Jesse Eisenberg

I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It's not something to be approached casually. — Deborah Eisenberg

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever. — Jesse Eisenberg

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. — Jesse Eisenberg

Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and ... the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line. — Deborah Eisenberg

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept. — Jesse Eisenberg

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to. — Jesse Eisenberg

I would like to never ever think about any political issues. — Deborah Eisenberg

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off. — Jesse Eisenberg

Did you know that Jeff Bezos, in place of PowerPoint presentations in meetings, requires his execs to write six-page narrative memos? — Bryan Eisenberg

I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job. — Jesse Eisenberg

I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient. — Deborah Eisenberg

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive. — Jesse Eisenberg

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City. — Jesse Eisenberg

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album. — Jesse Eisenberg

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever. — Deborah Eisenberg

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people. — Deborah Eisenberg

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. — Jesse Eisenberg

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did. — Jesse Eisenberg

But kids think differently than adults think. Adults have spent so many years thinking more and more like each other because the more you live with other people the less you think like yourself and the more you think like them. But kids are new people so we still think more normally. — Jesse Eisenberg

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too. — Jesse Eisenberg

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting. — Jesse Eisenberg

I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy. — Deborah Eisenberg

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality. — Jesse Eisenberg

Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write. — Deborah Eisenberg

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work. — Jesse Eisenberg

I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody. — Jesse Eisenberg

It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise. — Deborah Eisenberg

Art is inherently subversive. It's destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda. — Deborah Eisenberg

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one. — Jesse Eisenberg

It's a very strange experience to watch yourself in a movie anyway. I most frequently don't do it, but if I was going to do it, I would do it in a private way, not at a public screening at a film festival, which is just an overwhelming experience. — Jesse Eisenberg

The war in the East were hidden behind a thicket of language: patriotism, democracy, loyality, fredom - the words bounced around, changing purpose, as if they were made out of some funny plastic. What did they actually refer to? It seemed that they all might refer to money ... — Deborah Eisenberg

Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are. — Jesse Eisenberg

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody. — Jesse Eisenberg

Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad. — Jesse Eisenberg

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. — Jesse Eisenberg

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.' — Jesse Eisenberg

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way. — Jesse Eisenberg

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different. — Jesse Eisenberg

Worry is today's mouse eating tomorrow's cheese. — Larry Eisenberg

Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider. — Jesse Eisenberg

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts. — Jesse Eisenberg

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area. — Jesse Eisenberg

I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it. — Jesse Eisenberg

I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s. — Jesse Eisenberg

I didn't want to write travelogues. — Deborah Eisenberg

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.' — Jesse Eisenberg

Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad — Jesse Eisenberg

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist. — Jesse Eisenberg

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives. — Jesse Eisenberg

There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain. — David Eisenberg

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people. — Jesse Eisenberg

First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room. — Jesse Eisenberg

If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there. — Jesse Eisenberg

It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be. — Deborah Eisenberg

I always need huge amounts of time to do anything. — Deborah Eisenberg

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking. — Jesse Eisenberg

A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion ... takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting ... Eisenberg's powerful, beautifully written book ... has the potential to open many people's eyes, minds, and hearts. — Elizabeth Cunningham

I'm not on Page Six, because I don't have anything salacious happening in my life ... unfortunately. — Jesse Eisenberg

The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties. — Jesse Eisenberg

Because going through a hard life with someone else is better than going through an easy life alone. — Jesse Eisenberg

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance. — Jesse Eisenberg

It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways. — Jesse Eisenberg

I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche. — Deborah Eisenberg

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me. — Jesse Eisenberg

Fiction is a report from the interior. — Deborah Eisenberg

Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged and amused, but primarily, I'm interested in other things. It's the texture of any given moment that fascinates me: what is really going on between people or in somebody's mind. — Deborah Eisenberg

When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you get to be a writer, and I don't? I thought WRITER was written on their foreheads and they saw it when they looked in the mirror, and I sure didn't see it when I looked in the mirror.
I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. — Deborah Eisenberg

I'm a person with virtually no feelings. — Deborah Eisenberg

I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway. — Jesse Eisenberg

I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified. And it's an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable? — Deborah Eisenberg

I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused. — Jesse Eisenberg

I just want to be on my own branch twittering. — Deborah Eisenberg

I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel. — Deborah Eisenberg

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions. — Deborah Eisenberg

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. — Jesse Eisenberg

I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character like Lex Luthor, which I only knew from the public consciousness of him being a bald, brooding villain who is older than me. — Jesse Eisenberg

For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve. — Deborah Eisenberg

To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege. — Leon Eisenberg

Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise. — Larry Eisenberg

Free is not the same as free and easy. — Larry Eisenberg

Time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter. — Deborah Eisenberg