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I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.

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Jeremy Piven
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 26
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Manhattan borough
New York City
Jeremy Samuel Piven
Actor
Stage
Actors

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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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As an actor you want to explore something you haven't done.
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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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If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.
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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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Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.
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When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, Oh, this must be the guy.
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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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You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?
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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.
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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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Quitting the show was a complete anomaly in my life and my career. I've never missed out on anything. I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.
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I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.
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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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I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.
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It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.
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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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My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.
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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'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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