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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
Isaac Liev Schreiber
Isaac Liev Schreiber
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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'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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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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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 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 get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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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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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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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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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 direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
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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 a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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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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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused
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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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