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Liev Schreiber

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 4, 1967

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 have Slavic fat pads that make me look like a chipmunk and arched predatory eyebrows. With that, you're not going to get funny. That's why I play so many bad guys.

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Entitlement is lethal.

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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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You always have to create the character from the ground up.

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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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You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss.

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I've got nothing against L.A. I think it is a really beautiful place. To be able to surf and get out in the Pacific Ocean every once in a while. The hiking, all of that is amazing. I love it there.

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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 find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.

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The guy who kind of broke the story in 'Spotlight' was a priest, the guy who had sort of done all the research. One of the things he said when one of the 'Spotlight' reporters asked him how he could still remain a Catholic, he said that, 'My faith is in the eternal, and the church is an organization.'

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

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

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And I think for me there's 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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Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

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I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.

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

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You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.

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