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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.

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 kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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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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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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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 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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I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
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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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Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
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I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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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 really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.
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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 really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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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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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
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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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