Liev Schreiber Quotes
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I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.
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Theater is consistent. You ride your bike to work. You get most of the day off so you can see your kids. My problem is that after three months, I go mad. One of the reasons I never thought I could do a TV show is that I hate doing the same thing over and over again.
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I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.
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When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror.
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I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
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I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way.
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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.
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I'm terrible with big parties.
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I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
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I have the kind of face that people want to punch.
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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.
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I've never been a heavy practitioner of the method or, at least, with any specific intent; I'm kind of an impulse-based person. Like, I'm sort of waiting for something to happen that I'm not expecting, and I kind of want to jump on that train of emotion, whatever it is, both from myself or from the other actor.
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Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.
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When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.
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The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.
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I have Slavic fat pads that make me look like a chipmunk and arched predatory eyebrows. With that, you're not going to get funny. That's why I play so many bad guys.