Words matter. These are the best Jeremy Piven Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.
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.
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.
I like to box. It’s a great release.
All I’ve done is work… I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I’ve been pounding the pavement ever since.
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.
I’m not a boy now. I’m a man, I hope. I hope I’ve had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
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.
The stage is my love, it’s where I started and where I do my best work.
Yet the reality is that I’m a stage actor from the Midwest – probably the opposite of a shark agent.
I’m not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.
I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.
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.
Everyone’s journey is completely different.
The reality is that I’m an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started ‘Entourage’.
When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.
One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.
I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway… It’s the holy grail for people like me.
I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don’t get in your own way.
