Jeremy Piven Quotes
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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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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I steal props from 'SNL' a great deal. Almost every sketch I'm in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props.
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To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
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I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
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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.
