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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
Actor
Film Actor
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Film Producer
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Television Actor
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San Francisco County
California
Isaac Liev Schreiber
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I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.
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I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.
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I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
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I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'
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I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.
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I've always been more interested in the audience than I have in the plays. I like that idea of all those people sitting in the dark together. It's kind of fun.
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I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.
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I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
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I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.
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The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
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There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
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