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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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Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Actor
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San Francisco County
California
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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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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'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
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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 am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.
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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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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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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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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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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 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 direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
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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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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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