Ari Gold (Entourage)

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Ari Gold
Entourage character

Hometown:
Known Relatives:	Mrs. Ari (wife) Sarah Gold (daughter)
Profession:	Owner/Partner Miller/Gold Talent Agency Vincent Chase's Agent(recently fired, status in question)
Significant Other:	Married to Mrs. Ari
Played by:	Jeremy Piven
Key Episode:	Entourage (Pilot)

Ari Gold is a character on the dramedy television series Entourage. He is played by Jeremy Piven. Who became an agent after earlier work in pornograghic films such as "silverback ape goes Gold." Ari Gold was Vince's agent and "one of the most powerful men in Hollywood". A workaholic with a quick temper, constant sarcasm, frenetic physical presence, an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a JD/MBA from the University of Michigan, Ari is one of the program's most popular characters. It is purported in Season 3 that Ari was a brother of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity in college. But despite being a powerful presence at the agency (Ari singlehandedly set out to destroy a former assistant turned rival agent for trying to steal Vincent), Ari is dominated by his wife at the home (who we are led to believe has a large inheritance from her father), who orders her husband around. Ari and Eric are the primary influencers in Vincent's life. But it is clear that Vincent trusts and follows Eric's advice much more than he does Ari's. This makes for a tense relationship between Eric and Ari. While neither one particularly likes the other, they realize that they are in a marriage of necessity.

Towards the end of season two, we discover that the agency that Ari runs is actually owned by a man named Terrance who has emerged from retirement seemingly due to his desire to replace Ari as Vincent's agent. The conflict that arises between Ari and Terrance reaches a boiling point in season two, leading to Ari's termination following the exposure of a coup d'état being planned by Ari. Ari's character is reportedly based on the real-life Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel^[1], who broke away from mega-agency ICM to form The Endeavor Agency, which represents such stars as Vin Diesel and Larry David, both of whom are represented on the show by the fictional Ari Gold. Ari Emanuel also once represented Jeremy Piven himself. Real-life "Ari Gold" produced the CD of one of Grenier's bands, The Honey Brothers, in 2003. ^[2]

Ari was fired at the end of season 3 as a result of causing Vince to lose a much wanted project about the Ramones.

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"You know what other class I took at Harvard...Business Ethics. I don't steal other people's motherfucking clients. But in your case, I'll make an exception. I'm going to take everyone. Your B-level sitcom stars, your reality TV writers. When I'm done with you, you'll be repping sideshow freaks. You want Jo-Jo the dog-faced bitch boy, call Josh Weinfuck, the lightweight pen stealing fuckface." - To Josh Weinstein, preventing him from stealing Vince as a client, 1x06 - Busey and the Beast

"Even broccoli screams when you rip it from the ground."

"You can have it if you want to live in Agoura fucking Hills and go to group therapy, but if you want to live in a Beverly Hills mansion, a country club membership, and nine weeks in a Tuscan villa, then I'm going to have to take a call when it comes in at noon on a motherfucking Wednesday!"

"You all have one goal today: to get Vincent Chase's brother, Johnny Chase, a job. Any job. I don't care if it's a porn shoot in which he's being gangraped by a gaggle of silverback apes, if there are cameras rolling, everybody wins. Ten grand to anyone that can deliver this to me. Today."

"Let's hug it out, bitch"

"You look like Michelle Kwan in drag. Now do a triple fucking axle over the desk and get Cameron on the phone." - To Lloyd, in response to Lloyd's new outfit influenced by Andre 3000 (from the 'Hey Ya!" music video).

"Pass this message along to Dana. Tell her I still have the pictures from Cancun and tell her I'm going to start a website. I'm going to take a full page ad in the LA Times advertising it. Tell her it will be called a iamahollywoodexecutivewhore.com, and no password or fees will be required. Tell her I want a fucking callback."

"You drive that way in Tiananmen Square, bitch?"

"That was a good speech Lloyd. Yeah, if I was 25 and liked cock we could be something."

"And Hilary Swank has a vagina, but she won an Oscar pretending she has a dick. That's what actors do. They pretend."

"Just so you know, your girlfriend, when she was in the mailroom, offered to blow me. True story."

"That's why no more guys! You fire a guy you create a rival. You fire a woman you create a housewife."

"How'd the fucking Bay of Pigs go, Lloyd?"

"Got milf?"

"Lloyd, pack up all my files, pile everything you see into a box - EVERYTHING! You see a used condom and a goddamn spiked paddle, don't think, just pack that bitch! Chop suey!"