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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 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.
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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 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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Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.
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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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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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And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'
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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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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 was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
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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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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
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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 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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