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

Jesse Eisenberg

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Jesse Eisenberg
Age: 40
Born: 1983
Born: October 5
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Queens
New York
Jesse Adam Eisenberg
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I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
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I personally don’t feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn’t if I tried anyway.
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I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
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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.
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Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.
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My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.
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