Liev Schreiber Quotes
You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
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I didn't really take a lot of any on-camera classes or anything like that. I really just threw all of my energy into auditioning, and I know that I basically just did things based on feedback that I would get.
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It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.
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How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?'
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.
