Top 50 Jeremy Piven Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Everyone’s journey is completely different.”

— Jeremy Piven

2. “You know the Greeks didnt write obituaries, they only asked one question after a man died, ‘Did he have passion?’”

— Jeremy Piven

3. “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

4. “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

5. “What’s this? You’re wearing the shirt of the band you’re going to see? Don’t be that guy.”

— Jeremy Piven

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

— Jeremy Piven

7. “One person’s success doesn’t take away from your own.”

— Jeremy Piven

8. “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

9. “I’ve been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.”

— Jeremy Piven

10. “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

11. “I have been drumming my whole life.”

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12. “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

13. “I do yoga. I’ve been doing yoga for over 20 years and I love it.”

— Jeremy Piven

14. “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

15. “You can’t make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.”

— Jeremy Piven

16. “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

17. “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

18. “I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.”

— Jeremy Piven

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

— Jeremy Piven

20. “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.”

— Jeremy Piven

21. “My goal, everyone’s goal is to get better at what we do.”

— Jeremy Piven

22. “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

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

— Jeremy Piven

24. “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

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

— Jeremy Piven

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

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

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28. “I’m acting with the best actors in the world.”

— Jeremy Piven

29. “Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I’m a huge fan of his.”

— Jeremy Piven

30. “I grew up in the theatre.”

— Jeremy Piven

31. “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

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

— Jeremy Piven

33. “I don’t know if there’s a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.”

— Jeremy Piven

34. “I’m one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.”

— Jeremy Piven

35. “When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it’s the great unknown. That’s the way it is. It’s this great leap of faith. It’s the Russian roulette of art.”

— Jeremy Piven

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

— Jeremy Piven

37. “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

38. “When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, “Oh, this must be the guy.””

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39. “I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they’re looking for a simpler time.”

— Jeremy Piven

40. “I like to box. It’s a great release.”

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41. “For so much of my career I’ve been trying to find little things and make something out of it.”

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42. “I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.”

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43. “When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that’s not the healthiest way to be.”

— Jeremy Piven

44. “HBO does something that most networks don’t do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.”

— Jeremy Piven

45. “I had never really been around cards.”

— Jeremy Piven

46. “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

47. “I’m a stage actor. That is what I do.”

— Jeremy Piven

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

— Jeremy Piven

49. “I’ve been on the stage my entire life as an actor.”

— Jeremy Piven

50. “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