Liev Schreiber Quotes
I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Kadar died as a mass killer, and the Hungarian nation can't forget that.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Compare the saint who, asked what he would do if he had only an hour to live, replied that he would go on with his game of chess, since it was as much worship as anything else he had ever done.
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For the higher interest of the nation, you've got to be capable of hurting yourself.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.
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Progress is the ultimate motivation.
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I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
