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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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You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
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I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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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 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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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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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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I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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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 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'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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