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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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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 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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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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I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
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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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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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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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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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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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I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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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 find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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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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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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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 was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
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Its the difference between instinct and intuition.
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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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