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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
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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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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I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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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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Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.
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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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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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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
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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 find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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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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.
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