Quotes from Jeremy Piven

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.

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.

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

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

Everyone's journey is completely different.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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