Jeremy Piven Quotes

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

Actors are investigators.

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

That's kind of the fun part about acting. We do get the right to kind of get from A to Z any way we want, as long as we start at A and end at Z.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.