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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused
Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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San Francisco County
California
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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 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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Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
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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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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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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
Liev Schreiber
You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
Liev Schreiber
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 grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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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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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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.
Liev Schreiber
Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.
Liev Schreiber
I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.
Liev Schreiber
You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
Liev Schreiber
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
Liev Schreiber
Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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