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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. "

Liev Schreiber

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Liev Schreiber

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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. "

" 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. "

" I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me. "

Liev Schreiber

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" You should never ask actors about politics. "

" I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way. "

" I manage to hide in my movies. "

" I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change. "

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

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" That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The guy who kind of broke the story in 'Spotlight' was a priest, the guy who had sort of done all the research. One of the things he said when one of the 'Spotlight' reporters asked him how he could still remain a Catholic, he said that, 'My faith is in the eternal, and the church is an organization.' "