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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.

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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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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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 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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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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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'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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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 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'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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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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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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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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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
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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 people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to.
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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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