Jeremy Piven For Page Six Magazine

He’s one of the best characters on Entourage and now Jeremy Piven is gracing the cover of this week’s Page Six Magazine. Famous for his club-going and flirtatious ways, Jeremy is back in town with a new Broadway show and looking for a woman. But this time he’s playing for keeps.

On his Emmy and Golden Globe-winning role of Ari Gold in Entourage:

“I’m not Ari. But still, he’s a great character to play- he’s so reactive and living in the moment, but at the same time, he is driven by things that I think are beautiful, like putting food on the table. In life I wouldn’t have the patience for him, and I don’t think he would for me. I’m a stage actor making no money doing a f–cking play. He’d be like ‘Baby, baby. It’s always about the money baby.’ The irony there is pretty thick.”

On his reputation as a womanizer:

“It just feels so played out. It’s not really me. In essence, I am a really boring stage actor from Chicago.”

On the exhaustion of working on Broadway, in his current role of Bobby Gould in Speed-the-Plow:

“This show starts off like the [end] of a boxing round, when there are ten seconds left and you just have to give it all you’ve got. The great ones let their hands go- they let them fly- and they swing. This play feels like swinging from the time the curtain goes up.”

On his infamous, bathroom-line war of words with Stephen Dorff:

“I was seeking justice in the wrong place…I just wanted him to know he had to wait in line at a crowded club like everyone else.”

To read about why he chose to move to NY and why he hasn’t found true love yet, click on the continue reading link below.

On his nomadic existence and the decision to move to New York City:

“I’ve been a moving target for the last two decades…Whenever I come back to New York I think, ‘Why don’t I live here again?’ That was the reason for me to take this play- so I could come here and find a place to live, and establish a solid foundation for myself. That’s what I really need right now.”

On why it’s taken him so long to find true love:

“I think seeing my parents together and how they were such a team, it made me think that when you finally pick someone to be with, you do it for keeps…My six-year-old niece put it best when she was talking to my mother about my being single so long. ‘All in his own time, Nana,’ she said, ‘All in his own time.’”

For more on Jeremy Piven, check out this week’s issue of Page Six Magazine, free inside the Sunday edition of the New York Post and online on Monday at www.pagesixmag.com.