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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. "
Liev Schreiber
God
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Advertising
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first. "
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" You should never ask actors about politics. "
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" My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election. "
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" Theater is consistent. You ride your bike to work. You get most of the day off so you can see your kids. My problem is that after three months, I go mad. One of the reasons I never thought I could do a TV show is that I hate doing the same thing over and over again. "
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" The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person. "
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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 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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Am
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" 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'm not that interested in working with impervious people. "
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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 grew up in the Lower East Side of New York. "
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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 get panic attacks in big crowds. "
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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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" 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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" I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore. "
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" 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. "
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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 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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" I've never been a heavy practitioner of the method or, at least, with any specific intent; I'm kind of an impulse-based person. Like, I'm sort of waiting for something to happen that I'm not expecting, and I kind of want to jump on that train of emotion, whatever it is, both from myself or from the other actor. "
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