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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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San Francisco County
California
Isaac Liev Schreiber
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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 get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused
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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 actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
Liev Schreiber
I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
Liev Schreiber
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.
Liev Schreiber
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.
Liev Schreiber
I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.
Liev Schreiber
I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
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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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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.
Liev Schreiber
A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
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You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
Liev Schreiber
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
Liev Schreiber
There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
Liev Schreiber
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.
Liev Schreiber
Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
Liev Schreiber
