Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Samuel Piven is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his roles as Ari Gold in the comedy series Entourage, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy Awards, and as Spence Kovak on Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom Ellen. He is currently starring in the British period drama Mr Selfridge, which tells the story of the man who created the luxury English department store chain Selfridges...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth26 July 1965
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.
Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.
If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.
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.
I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
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.
You know the Greeks didnt write obituaries, they only asked one question after a man died, ‘Did he have passion?’
Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.
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.
I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.
The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.
One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.