Top 69 Piven Quotes
#1. I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.
Zoe Tapper
#2. I think there are people, and I do not mean this to be disparaging, there are people like Jay Mohr and Jeremy Piven where they just give you that vibe, 'This guy's going to play someone a little venal.'
Rob Thomas
#3. 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.
Jeremy Piven
#4. My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.
Jeremy Piven
#5. I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.
Jeremy Piven
#6. I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.
Frances Fox Piven
#7. 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.
Jeremy Piven
#8. I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
Jeremy Piven
#10. When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."
Jeremy Piven
#11. Human beings invent myth, ideology, and religion as means of denying reality and replacing death with palliative fantasies. Helplessness and death are blows to human narcissism. Human beings create illusions about themselves, lie to themselves as a means to feel secure and less vulnerable.
Jerry Piven
#12. The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.
Jeremy Piven
#13. The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.
Jeremy Piven
#14. I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.
Jeremy Piven
#15. I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway ... It's the holy grail for people like me.
Jeremy Piven
#16. Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease ... like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.
Jeremy Piven
#17. You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.
Jeremy Piven
#18. I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.
Jeremy Piven
#20. Everyone's journey is completely different.
Jeremy Piven
#21. 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.
Jeremy Piven
#22. I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?
Frances Fox Piven
#23. 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.
Jeremy Piven
#24. 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.
Jeremy Piven
#25. I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.
Jeremy Piven
#26. Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.
Frances Fox Piven
#27. One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.
Jeremy Piven
#29. Only by massive denial, repression of affect, and severe numbing of our human faculties and sensitivities could a person not feel a sense of remorse, apprehension, and dread.
Jerry S. Piven
#30. When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.
Jeremy Piven
#31. I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.
Jeremy Piven
#32. For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.
Jeremy Piven
#33. 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?
Jeremy Piven
#34. I'm acting with the best actors in the world.
Jeremy Piven
#35. 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.
Jeremy Piven
#36. I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.
Jeremy Piven
#37. What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.
Jeremy Piven
#38. If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.
Jeremy Piven
#40. All I've done is work ... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.
Jeremy Piven
#41. The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover the power latent in the cooperative roles that they play in a range of institutions.
Frances Fox Piven
#42. I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.
Jeremy Piven
#43. I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.
Jeremy Piven
#44. I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible.
Frances Fox Piven
#46. Well, here's all you need to know. Classes, nothing before 11. Beer, its your best friend, you drink a lot of it. Women, you're a freshman, so its pretty much out of the question. Will you have a car? ... Someone on your hall will, find them and make friends with them on the first day.
Jeremy Piven
#47. Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I'm a huge fan of his.
Jeremy Piven
#48. For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.
Jeremy Piven
#49. I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.
Jeremy Piven
#50. It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.
Jeremy Piven
#53. 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.
Jeremy Piven
#54. If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.
Jeremy Piven
#55. 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.
Jeremy Piven
#56. 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.
Jeremy Piven
#57. I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."
Frances Fox Piven
#58. 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.
Jeremy Piven
#59. HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.
Jeremy Piven
#60. People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.
Jeremy Piven
#61. One person's success doesn't take away from your own.
Jeremy Piven
#62. I do yoga. I've been doing yoga for over 20 years and I love it.
Jeremy Piven
#63. 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.
Jeremy Piven
#64. We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.
Jeremy Piven
#65. Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.
Jeremy Piven
#66. There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.
Jeremy Piven
#67. I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.
Jeremy Piven
#68. When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.
Jeremy Piven
#69. I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.
Frances Fox Piven
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