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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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San Francisco County
California
Isaac Liev Schreiber
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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 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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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
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Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played them, and will be around long after I play them. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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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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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 actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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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 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 do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.
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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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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 misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
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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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