Jeremy Piven (Actor)

"At the exact moment, I'm happy with where I'm at. At the same time, there's nothing premeditated about this state. I am very much open to the possibilities of settling down. I've grown closer to being able to step up to that." - Piven to Esquire magazine, June 2007

"I guess in some ways I'm a late-bloomer - with my career, my relationships," he says. "But what seems like late-blooming to some might be exactly the way I'm supposed to bloom." - Piven to Emmy magazine, Issue 3, 2006

"It would be nice to cultivate a relationship with a fern or something. I have the social skills of a nine-year-old geisha boy. Does that make any sense?" - Jeremy Piven quoted in Entertainment Weekly, Dec. 22, 1995

"It's tough when people are celebrated or become famous before they grow into themselves as an actor and as a human being. I'm just incredibly lucky to be so unpopular and uninteresting for so long." - Jeremy Piven, on getting a supporting actor nod for Entourage, People.com, August 2006

"People are always disappointed when they meet me, because I'm not ripping off someone's head or tearing their skin off to make ponchos out of it. They address me as an aggressor. There's a lot of barking, a lot of slapping." - Piven quoted to GQ, December 2005

"The life of an actor is that you do have to go in there and claw for every break, but at a certain point you have to stand up." - Piven on not wanting to audition for the role of 'Ari' to GQ, June 2006