Jeremy Piven
Everyone's journey is completely different.
I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.
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.
I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.
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.
I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah 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.
One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.
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.
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.
The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.
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.
We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.
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.
It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.
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.
I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.
Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.
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.
I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.
I like to box. It's a great release.
I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.
All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.
I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.
I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.
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.
If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.Collection: Kindness
What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.Collection: Guy
If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.Collection: Crime
People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.Collection: Hard Work
You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"Collection: Passion
Well, here's all you need to know. Classes, nothing before 11. Beer, its your best friend, you drink a lot of it. Women, you're a freshman, so its pretty much out of the question. Will you have a car? ... Someone on your hall will, find them and make friends with them on the first day.Collection: Beer
Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.Collection: Running
One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.Collection: Real
With me, growing up in a theater family and having them be so supportive, from the jump, and being a part of this theater community where the brass ring is working, wherever that is, and then to play a character where he's not really concerned with that and is really just concerned with the monetary aspect of the job, and then to be identified with someone who is the antithesis of your energy and where you come from, has been a very interesting and surreal ride.Collection: Jobs
Quitting the show was a complete anomaly in my life and my career. I've never missed out on anything. I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.Collection: Opportunity
As an actor you want to explore something you haven't done.Collection: Done
You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?Collection: Father
My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.Collection: Goal
When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.Collection: Worry
Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.Collection: Lessons
I'm acting with the best actors in the world.Collection: Acting
For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.Collection: Careers
I had never really been around cards.Collection: Cards
I have been drumming my whole life.Collection: Drumming
I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.Collection: Long
I'm in the middle of just trying to impress my nieces, who think I work for the bus company because they saw a picture of me on a bus. I did an independent movie with Mark Pellington (I Melt with You), and then tried to impress my nieces again, by starring opposite Miley Cyrus (in So Undercover). So, basically I'm just trying to get some respect from my family.Collection: Niece
Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I'm a huge fan of his.Collection: Fans
There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.Collection: Directors