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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
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San Francisco County
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Isaac Liev Schreiber
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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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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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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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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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused
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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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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 a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
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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 get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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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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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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 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 actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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