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
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.
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.
I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.
I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.
I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.
I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.
I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.
I like to box. It's a great release.
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.
I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.
Well, here's all you need to know. Classes, nothing before 11. Beer, its your best friend, you drink a lot of it. Women, you're a freshman, so its pretty much out of the question. Will you have a car? ... Someone on your hall will, find them and make friends with them on the first day.
What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.
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.
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.