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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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San Francisco County
California
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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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I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
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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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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 really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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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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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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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 was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
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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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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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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'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.
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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 grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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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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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
Liev Schreiber
I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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