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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
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Isaac Liev Schreiber
Isaac Liev Schreiber
Surfer
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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 direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.
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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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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 was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
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Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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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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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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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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I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
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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 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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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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