Jeremy Piven Quotes
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I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.
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Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.
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For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.
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I have been drumming my whole life.
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If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.
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My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.
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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 a picture of me on a bus. I did an independent movie with Mark Pellington (I Melt with You), and then tried to impress my nieces again, by starring opposite Miley Cyrus (in So Undercover). So, basically I'm just trying to get some respect from my family.
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When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.
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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 as though I hadn't done my job.
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I do yoga. I've been doing yoga for over 20 years and I love it.
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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 are feeling and thinking.
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As an actor you want to explore something you haven't done.
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What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.
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I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.
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You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"
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When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.
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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.
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I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.
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Everyone's journey is completely different.
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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.
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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 look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.
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I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.
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I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.
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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 intended, serendipitous.
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If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.
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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.
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Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I'm a huge fan of his.
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