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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.
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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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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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 find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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 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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