Liev Schreiber Quotes

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

Play, Impossible, Hockey

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

Good, Job, Last

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

Life, Real, Often

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.
Liev Schreiber

Time, Thinking, Involved

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?'
Liev Schreiber

Hate, Eat, Admit

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

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

Find, Wrong, Acting

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

Angry, Everything, Remember

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

Girl, Said, Gone

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.
Liev Schreiber

Smart, Short, Everyone

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.
Liev Schreiber

Good, Experience, Acting

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

Time, Simple, Long

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

Great, Hate, Everyone

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

Lost, Understand, Able

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

Good, Two, Reason

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

Money, God, Help

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

Bad, Happen, Find

I get panic attacks in big crowds.
Liev Schreiber

Big, Panic, Attacks

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

Women, Famous, Beautiful

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

Side, York, East

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

Work, Live, Hard

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.
Liev Schreiber

Love, End, Done

I manage to hide in my movies.
Liev Schreiber

Movies, Hide, Manage

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

Business, Eyes, Anybody

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.
Liev Schreiber

Experience, Important, Try

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: October 4, 1967

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