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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'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
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Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.
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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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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 get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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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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I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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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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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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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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The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.
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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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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 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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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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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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