Liev Schreiber Quotes

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Liev Schreiber

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 4, 1967

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

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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 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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I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish.

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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.

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I manage to hide in my movies.

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

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There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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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You should never ask actors about politics.

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

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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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