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

Liev Schreiber

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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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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 direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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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 know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
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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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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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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 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 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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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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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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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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