Liev Schreiber Quotes
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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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The worst bar fights I ever saw were in London. I saw a guy break a pint glass in another guy's face in a club in the Eighties. It was a gay club, too.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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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 really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror.
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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.
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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 get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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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 actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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'm terrible with big parties.
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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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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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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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I have the kind of face that people want to punch.
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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'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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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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I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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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.