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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
Film Director
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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San Francisco County
California
Isaac Liev Schreiber
Isaac Liev Schreiber
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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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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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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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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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Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.
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I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to.
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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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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 actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.
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Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.
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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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Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.
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I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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