Jeremy Piven Quotes

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

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

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

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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