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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 4
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Isaac Liev Schreiber
Isaac Liev Schreiber
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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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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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There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
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I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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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 was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
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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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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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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
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I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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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 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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