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Liev Schreiber

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    Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

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    A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.

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    And I think for me theres 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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    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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    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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    Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.

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    Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.

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    Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

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    Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.

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    Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

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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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    Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.

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    He was very supportive of me, ... He saw every single play I did in New York. Ill never forget looking out into the audience and watching my brother, who was 40 years younger than my grandfather, sleeping in his chair during some of my early plays. My grandfather Alex never fell asleep.

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    I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.

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    I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.

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    I am struggling, though. It’s f-cking hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.

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    I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

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    I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

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    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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    If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

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    I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

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    If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

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    If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.

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    I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

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    I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

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    I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.

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    I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

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    I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

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    I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

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    I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

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    I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

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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 think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.

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    I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to.

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    I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

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    Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

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    I've always been more interested in the audience than I have in the plays. I like that idea of all those people sitting in the dark together. It's kind of fun.

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    I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.

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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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    I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.

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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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    My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

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    No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

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    Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played them, and will be around long after I play them. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

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    Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

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    Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.

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    Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused

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    Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

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    Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

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    The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that I want to. I think I'm just figuring out how to make a career out of not being myself. It's hard.