Quotes from Jeremy Piven

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

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Quitting the show was a complete anomaly in my life and my career. I've never missed out on anything. 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 grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

I have been drumming my whole life.

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

Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.

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

I like to box. It's a great release.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.