Jeremy Piven Quotes

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

When I was young, I did varied after-school activities - I did art, drama, science, math. I'm not the sporty kind of person, but I did get a certificate on outdoor recreation.

I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I thought I would like to be an actor. I didn't have any idea what it was to be an actor. None. I'd wanted to be either an actor or a sculptor, which are both essentially the same thing. That's how it all started for me.

I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I don't know that I've ever been someone who's interested in existing on tour. I have a lot of interests and a lot of other things that excite me.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.

I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had a really conservative vibe. All my friends were planning on law school, med school, or Wall Street, and suddenly acting seem like a really risky proposition.

I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding.

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

As a child, people were always trying to photograph and film me because it's a way for a shy person to find themselves.

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.