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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
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San Francisco County
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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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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
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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 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 find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.
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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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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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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.
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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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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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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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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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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 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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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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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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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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