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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.
Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
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San Francisco County
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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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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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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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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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I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
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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 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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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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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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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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Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
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