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Famous Quotes By Jeremy Piven

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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

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

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You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me. — Jeremy Piven

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

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

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

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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

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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. — Jeremy Piven

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

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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. — Jeremy Piven

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I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance. — Jeremy Piven

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

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

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I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO. — Jeremy Piven

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I'm acting with the best actors in the world. — Jeremy Piven

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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

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

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

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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

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

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I do yoga. I've been doing yoga for over 20 years and I love it. — Jeremy Piven

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

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

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Everyone's journey is completely different. — Jeremy Piven

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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I had never really been around cards. — Jeremy Piven

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

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I grew up in the theatre. — Jeremy Piven

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

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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. — Jeremy Piven

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

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

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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

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

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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. — Jeremy Piven

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One person's success doesn't take away from your own. — Jeremy Piven

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

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I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am. — Jeremy Piven

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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

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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. — Jeremy Piven

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

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I have been drumming my whole life. — Jeremy Piven

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I'm a stage actor. That is what I do. — Jeremy Piven

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

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When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy." — Jeremy Piven

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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? — Jeremy Piven

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

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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. — Jeremy Piven

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

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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

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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. — Jeremy Piven

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

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If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is. — Jeremy Piven