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
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.
One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.
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.
I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.
I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.
It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.
All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.
Everyone's journey is completely different.
For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.
Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.
When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.
You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.
We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.
The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.