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."

Eisenberg: "All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired."

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."

Eisenberg: "People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly."

Eisenberg: "And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them."

Eisenberg: "The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false."

Eisenberg: "Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible."

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

Eisenberg: "As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental."

Eisenberg: "When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction."

Eisenberg: "Look, 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. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day."

Eisenberg: "Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say."

Eisenberg: "In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can."

Eisenberg: "I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies."

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."

Eisenberg: "To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone."

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."

Eisenberg: "The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous."

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."

Eisenberg: "I don't understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there."

Eisenberg: "I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards."

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

Eisenberg: "I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah."

Eisenberg: "Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider."

Eisenberg: "As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way."

Eisenberg: "Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury."

Eisenberg: "I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how."

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

Eisenberg: "I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good."

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."

Eisenberg: "If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day."

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

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."