Jeremy Piven Quotes

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

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

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.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.

When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.

You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

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.

I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

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

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.

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 grew up in the theatre.

I'm acting with the best actors in the world.

I had never really been around cards.

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

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

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

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

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

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

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.

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

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

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

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

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.

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.

As an actor you want to explore something you haven't done.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.

I have been drumming my whole life.

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.

HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.

There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I'm a huge fan of his.

I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.