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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
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San Francisco County
California
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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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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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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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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 actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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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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'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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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 think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.
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I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.
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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
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Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.
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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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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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I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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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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There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused
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