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I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

Liev Schreiber

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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
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Isaac Liev Schreiber
Curious
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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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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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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'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 actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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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.
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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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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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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.
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I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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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.
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I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
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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'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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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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