Quote

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

Liev Schreiber

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Isaac Liev Schreiber
Isaac Liev Schreiber
Misrepresented
Eyebrows
Scary
Size
Persons
Person

More quotes by Liev Schreiber

Image
I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
Liev Schreiber
Image
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?'
Liev Schreiber
Image
I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
Liev Schreiber
Image
I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
Liev Schreiber
Image
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.
Liev Schreiber
Image
Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
Liev Schreiber
Image
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.
Liev Schreiber
Image
You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
Liev Schreiber
Image
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.
Liev Schreiber
Image
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.
Liev Schreiber
Image
Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
Liev Schreiber
Image
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.
Liev Schreiber
Image
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.
Liev Schreiber
Image
I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
Liev Schreiber
Image
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
Image
Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
Liev Schreiber
Image
I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
Liev Schreiber
Image
I am struggling, though. It’s f-cking hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.
Liev Schreiber
Image
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
Image
I think it’s really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you’re going to do.
Liev Schreiber