Liev Schreiber Quotes
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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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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 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 the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
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Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.
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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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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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I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.
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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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It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.
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I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.
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I get panic attacks in big crowds.
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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 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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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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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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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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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.
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Everyone says villains are thankless parts, but those are really the best roles.