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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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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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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 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 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.
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Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.
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You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
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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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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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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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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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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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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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