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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused

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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
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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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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
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I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.
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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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Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
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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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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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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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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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And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'
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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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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 find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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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I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
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I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
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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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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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