Liev Schreiber Quotes
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There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
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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.
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I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.
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Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.
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Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
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You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.
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It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.
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I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.
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I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.
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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it.
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I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.
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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 get panic attacks in big crowds.
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I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.
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I did some research into what was going on in terms of the sexual revolution that was happening in the '60s in the gay community and particularly in the drag world. Before the '60s, guys doing drag would dress like their mothers or iconic Hollywood actresses.
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And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'
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You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety.
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Everyone says villains are thankless parts, but those are really the best roles.
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It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other.