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Jeremy Piven

(1965) Actor United States

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Jeremy Piven is an actor from the United States.

Quick Facts About Jeremy Piven

Born: July 26, 1965
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor

About Jeremy Piven

Jeremy Samuel Piven is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Ari Gold in the comedy series Entourage (2004–2011) for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy Awards. He also played the title role in the British period drama Mr Selfridge (2013–2016) and portrayed Spence Kovak on Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom Ellen (1996–1998).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Quotes by Jeremy Piven

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

Actors

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Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt…

Disgusting

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

Chicago

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I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can. The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's…

Beats

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The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be…

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

Actors

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I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them…

Celebrate

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People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow…

Deeper

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I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

Actors

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

Career

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I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if…

Good enough

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

Actors

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I grew up in the theatre.

Grew

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“Maybe you're lying here because you don't want to be standing anywhere else.”

Lying

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

Cinema

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John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun…

Childhood

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Everyone's journey is completely different.

Different

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

Feelings

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

Grew

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I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

Feels

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I'm in the middle of just trying to impress my nieces, who think I work for the bus company because they saw…

Bus

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

Chance

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

Crime

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

Radical

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I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.

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Jeremy Piven by topic

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