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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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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Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
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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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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.
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As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
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The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors. ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality.
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I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
