Liev Schreiber Quotes

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

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• My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Me
  • Influence
  • Values

• The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Moment

• I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Up
  • Food
  • Garden

• Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • Enough
  • Smart

• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Very
  • I Can
  • Quietly

• Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • Better
  • Relationships

• I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Care

• 'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.

  

  Manny Farber
  • American
  • Study
  • Sex

• I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Life
  • Father
  • Relationship

• One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Speak
  • Lifestyle

• A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Son

• In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ambition
  • Modern
  • Ideals

• The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Live
  • Education
  • Learning

• While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Through

• Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Big
  • Oil
  • Trading

• There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Rest
  • Problems

• You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

  

  Paul Tsongas
  • Time
  • Business
  • Hate

• My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Free
  • Faith

• But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

  

  Liev Schreiber