Liev Schreiber quotes

Its the difference between instinct and intuition,
-- Liev Schreiber

#Differences #Intuition #Instinct

There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Editing #Rooms #Hours

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

#Thinking #President #Politics

Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Actors #Broads #Worth It

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Mother #Thinking #Income

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Struggle #Character #People

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Fun #Dark #Play

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Addiction #Acting

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Simple #Thinking #People

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Thinking #Careers #Actors

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Character #Thinking #Play

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Play #Long #Theatre

I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Jobs #Thinking #Choices

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Smart #Thinking #Games

You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Trying #Actors

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Jobs #Thinking #Careers

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Teacher #Lucky #Actors

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet
-- Liev Schreiber

#Two #Persona

Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Simple #Talking #Long

When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.
-- Liev Schreiber

#New York #Beats

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.
-- Liev Schreiber

#People #Benefits #Film

You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Drs #Affinity

Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused
-- Liev Schreiber

#Needs #Actors #Focused

The best gig is the one you've got.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Gigs

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Character #Reality #Want

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

#Hockey #Ice #People

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

#Falling In Love #Waiting #Over You

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

#Girl #Gone #Firsts

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

#Eyebrows #Scary #Size

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Motivation #Acting #Intention

You should never ask actors about politics.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Actors #Politics #Should

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

#Kids #Littles #Obsession

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Thinking #Neurosis #Should

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

#May #Classic #Film

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

#Kind #Neat #Obsessive

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Beautiful #People #Beautiful Women

I get panic attacks in big crowds.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Crowds #Panic Attacks #Panic

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

#Guy

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

#Two #Dialect #Reason

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#People #Actors #Able

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

#Hate #Winnipeg

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Acting #Doing You

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Doing You

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

#Real #People #Awkward

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

#Jobs #Hollywood #Lasts

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#People #Perspective #Remember

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

#New York #East #Sides

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Kids #Hockey #Play

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

#Thinking #Legacy #Done

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

#New York #Thinking #Incredibles

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

#Eye #Thinking #Woods

I manage to hide in my movies.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Manage

I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Thinking #Needs #Way

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Thinking #Careers #Doing Me

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Eye #Hockey #Games

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

#Expression #Personality #Style

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

#Jobs #Character #Actors

It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Too Much

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Struggle #Sleep #Littles

I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Months #Firsts #Chickens

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.
-- Liev Schreiber

#Brother #New York #Sleep