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I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
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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 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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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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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 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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I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
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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 get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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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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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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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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