Quotes by Jeremy Piven

• 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.
• We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.
• 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.
• 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'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'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.
• I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.
• 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 feel, as a person, very uninteresting.
• The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.