Top 17 Jeremy Piven Quotes

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

Everyone‘s journey is completely different.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I like to box. It’s a great release.

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.

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 feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

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

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