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

Jesse Eisenberg

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Jesse Eisenberg
Age: 40
Born: 1983
Born: October 5
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
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Jesse Adam Eisenberg
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I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
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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.
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