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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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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'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.
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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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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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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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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'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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