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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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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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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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I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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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 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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I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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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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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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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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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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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'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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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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