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I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.
Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
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More quotes by 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.
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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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There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
Liev Schreiber
You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
Liev Schreiber
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.
Liev Schreiber
I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
Liev Schreiber
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.
Liev Schreiber
I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.
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Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played them, and will be around long after I play them. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
Liev Schreiber
Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
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 find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
Liev Schreiber
I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
Liev Schreiber
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
Liev Schreiber
You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
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
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
Liev Schreiber
I think it’s really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you’re going to do.
Liev Schreiber
