Jeremy Piven's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Everyone's journey is completely different.

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

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

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

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

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 video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.

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

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.

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

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

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.