Jeremy Piven Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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 a stage actor. That is what I do.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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