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
But there are other roles that people have not seen me do that I have done on the stage.
I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.
When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."
I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.
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.
You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.
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.
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'm a musician who's at the end of his rope who's been addicted to coke for a while,
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.
The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.
I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.
I'm attracted to flawed characters, ... They're fun and interesting to play and the rest comes from that.