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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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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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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There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.
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If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.
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Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.
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Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
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I read YA novels constantly, so I really want to be in a young adult rom-com, but I worry that I'm aging into the parent role, which is a little scary.
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I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
