Liev Schreiber Quotes
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I manage to hide in my movies.
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I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
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The premise for me has always been that it's vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that's an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me.
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The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.
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Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.
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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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Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.
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I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.
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I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.
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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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We have to remember to respect the faith of people and maybe not the organizations or the groups that manifest around it.
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There's nothing more exciting than that conversation you have with a live audience. It's the best feeling in the world.
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My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.
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If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
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I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.
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My style was always intuitive. I never used to believe in working on your body. Anything that smacked of vanity to me was bad for your acting, but I learned that wasn't true.
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My mother didn't let me see color films. I saw a lot of black-and-white films. The first time I saw Basil Rathbone, I was completely taken. To me, that was the epitome of great acting, was Basil Rathbone - not only in Sherlock Holmes, but the Sheriff of Nottingham, and all the terrible characters he had to play alongside Errol Flynn.
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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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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.
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I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
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There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.