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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.
Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
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San Francisco County
California
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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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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 grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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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 think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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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 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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I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
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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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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've always been more interested in the audience than I have in the plays. I like that idea of all those people sitting in the dark together. It's kind of fun.
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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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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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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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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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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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