Liev Schreiber Quotes
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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 love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.
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I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. I was a little bit different.
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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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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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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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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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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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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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I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
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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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There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.