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" During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it. "

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" 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. "

Liev Schreiber

Role Model

Trying

Grandfather

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

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

" I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors. "

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

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

" Entitlement is lethal. "

Liev Schreiber

Entitlement

Lethal

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

" The premise for me has always been that it's vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that's an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me. "

" My style was always intuitive. I never used to believe in working on your body. Anything that smacked of vanity to me was bad for your acting, but I learned that wasn't true. "

" 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

Interesting

Kind

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

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

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

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

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

" The worst bar fights I ever saw were in London. I saw a guy break a pint glass in another guy's face in a club in the Eighties. It was a gay club, too. "

" 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

" 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. "

" No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey. "

" 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

Reason

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

" You should never ask actors about politics. "

" I get panic attacks in big crowds. "

" Well, 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The best gig is the one you've got. "

" No offense to the Canadians, but I believe location is like a character, and authenticity really matters. 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. I think it's pretty easy these days to tell films that are shot in Toronto. "