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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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
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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'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.
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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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.
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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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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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I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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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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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.
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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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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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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 direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
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Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
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