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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.
Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
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San Francisco County
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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 get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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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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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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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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There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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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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 really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
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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 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.
Liev Schreiber
Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
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I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.
Liev Schreiber
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.
Liev Schreiber
I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.
Liev Schreiber
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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