Liev Schreiber Quotes
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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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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 find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone says villains are thankless parts, but those are really the best roles.
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I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.
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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 was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.
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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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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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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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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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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.
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Entitlement is lethal.
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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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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.