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I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
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Film Producer
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Television Actor
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San Francisco County
California
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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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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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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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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 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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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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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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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'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
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I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.
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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 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 grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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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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