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• Yet the reality is that I’m a stage actor from the Midwest – probably the opposite of a shark agent.

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• When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

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• All I’ve done is work… I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I’ve been pounding the pavement ever since.

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• Everyone’s journey is completely different.

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• I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

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• I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway… It’s the holy grail for people like me.

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• 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.

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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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• The reality is that I’m an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started ‘Entourage’.

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• We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

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• We all have so many different elements inside of us and we’re not all one thing.

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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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• The stage is my love, it’s where I started and where I do my best work.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

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• 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.

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• I’m not a boy now. I’m a man, I hope. I hope I’ve had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

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• 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.

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• I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

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Jeremy Piven (22)

Birth:	26th July, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Jeremy Samuel Piven was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He is an American actor. 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. He studied at Drake University and New York University. His role in several films include: Lucas, One Crazy Summer, White Palace, The Player, Singles, Judgment Night, PCU, Miami Rhapsody, Heat, Larger than Life, Just Write, Grosse Pointe Blank, Phoenix, The Crew, Serendipity (Nominated- Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor), Highway, Runaway Jury, The Kingdom, I Melt with You, So Undercover, and Entourage. His role in television include: The Larry Sanders Show (TV series), 12:01 (TV film), Ellen (TV series), Don King: Only in America (TV film), Cupid (TV series), Mr Selfridge (TV series), and Wisdom of the Crowd (TV series).

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