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" 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. "

Liev Schreiber

Think

Repair

Why

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" I went to school in Massachusetts at Hampshire College. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety. "

" If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic. "

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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. "

" 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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Entitlement

Lethal

" 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. "