Jeremy Piven Quotes


"We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing."
- Jeremy Piven
"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
(Related: People, Performance, Disgust, Job, Theater)

"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
(Related: Thought, Favorite)

"One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters."
- Jeremy Piven
"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
(Related: Pretty)

"I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere."
- Jeremy Piven
(Related: Hope, Man, Now)

"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
(Related: Life, Women, Fact)

"I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside."
- Jeremy Piven
(Related: Radical, Want)

"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
(Related: Heart, Chicago, Cities)

"I feel, as a person, very uninteresting."
- Jeremy Piven
"The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work."
- Jeremy Piven
(Related: Work, Love)