American - Actor | October 4, 1967 -
I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
Liev Schreiber
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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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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.
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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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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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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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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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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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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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Home is New York.
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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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