Liev Schreiber Quotes
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I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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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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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'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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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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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 had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.
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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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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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If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
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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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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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I manage to hide in my movies.
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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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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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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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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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I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.
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There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
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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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That's really how I got started was doing Shakespeare. When I got out of school, I was lucky enough to meet George Wolfe, who ran The Public Theater.
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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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You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor.