Jeremy Piven Quotes

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

Every step of my career was hard work.

When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.

I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

I'm always hustling.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

I am hoping for a long career.

Let us suppose you become a craneman. Suppose you become a clerk in a lawyer's office. Give the best that is in you. Let nothing stand in the way of your going on.

You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.

I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

I have worked hard to get where I am.

To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else.

There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.