Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
Liev Schreiber
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Isaac Liev Schreiber
Isaac Liev Schreiber
Soon
Wrong
More quotes by Liev Schreiber
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.
Liev Schreiber
Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused
Liev Schreiber
A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
Liev Schreiber
Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
Liev Schreiber
I am struggling, though. It’s f-cking hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.
Liev Schreiber
I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
Liev Schreiber
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.
Liev Schreiber
You always have to create the character from the ground up.
Liev Schreiber
I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
Liev Schreiber
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?'
Liev Schreiber
I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
Liev Schreiber
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.
Liev Schreiber
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.
Liev Schreiber
Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.
Liev Schreiber
I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
Liev Schreiber
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.
Liev Schreiber
I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
Liev Schreiber
I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.
Liev Schreiber
You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
Liev Schreiber
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.
Liev Schreiber
