Jeremy Piven Quotes

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.
Jeremy Piven

Great, Thought, Said

I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Jeremy Piven

Beautiful, Heart, Greatest

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.
Jeremy Piven

Work, Done, Since

Everyone's journey is completely different.
Jeremy Piven

Different, Everyone, Journey

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.
Jeremy Piven

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.
Jeremy Piven

Yourself, Stage, Throw

I like to box. It's a great release.
Jeremy Piven

Great, Box, Release

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.
Jeremy Piven

Made, Play, Chicago

I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.
Jeremy Piven

Holy, Broadway, Grail

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.
Jeremy Piven

Inside, Outside, Radical

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.
Jeremy Piven

Father, Fight, Play

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.
Jeremy Piven

Actor, Stage, Chicago

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.
Jeremy Piven

Life, Women, Single

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
Jeremy Piven

Hope, Boy, Somewhere

I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.
Jeremy Piven

Good, Enough, Pretty

I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.
Jeremy Piven

Game, Football, Around

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.
Jeremy Piven

Love, Job, Actor

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.
Jeremy Piven

Together, Friends, Fact

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.
Jeremy Piven

Great, Judge, Learned

The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.
Jeremy Piven

Real, Guys, Biggest

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.
Jeremy Piven

Movies, Reality, Before

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.
Jeremy Piven

Love, Work, Best

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.
Jeremy Piven

Job, Done, Though

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.
Jeremy Piven

Time, Morning, Deal

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.
Jeremy Piven

Different, Inside, Elements

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 26, 1965

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