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There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
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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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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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 people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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.
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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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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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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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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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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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I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
Liev Schreiber
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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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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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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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 really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
Liev Schreiber
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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