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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.
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 a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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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I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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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 am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.
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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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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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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused
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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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There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
Liev Schreiber
Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
Liev Schreiber
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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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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I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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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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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
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