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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.
Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
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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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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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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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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'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
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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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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 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.
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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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