You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me. Jeremy Piven More Quotes by Jeremy Piven More Quotes From Jeremy Piven 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. Jeremy Piven holy-grailopportunitypeople All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since. Jeremy Piven pavementlos-angelesdone It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones. Jeremy Piven bonesactorsjobs I feel, as a person, very uninteresting. Jeremy Piven personsfeels One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters. Jeremy Piven judgingtalkingcharacter 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. Jeremy Piven donejobspeople 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. Jeremy Piven lamasaidthinking The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work. Jeremy Piven best-workstage I do yoga. I've been doing yoga for over 20 years and I love it. Jeremy Piven yogayears I'm a stage actor. That is what I do. Jeremy Piven stage-actorsstageactors I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere. Jeremy Piven mitzvahmenboys 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. Jeremy Piven fightingplayfather When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy." Jeremy Piven playcharacterpeople Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent. Jeremy Piven sharksoppositesreality We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing. Jeremy Piven one-thingelementsdifferent You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?" Jeremy Piven passionwritingmen I grew up in the theatre. Jeremy Piven grewtheatregrew-up I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way. Jeremy Piven grewstageway I like to box. It's a great release. Jeremy Piven releaseboxes I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up. Jeremy Piven chicagoplayway
