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" I'm not that interested in working with impervious people. "
Liev Schreiber
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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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Friends And Family
Family
Stand
" I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career. "
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Teachers
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" I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive. "
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Person
Obsessive
Neat
" 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. "
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Angry
Remember
Perspective
" I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great. "
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Going
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" If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character. "
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Doing
Audience
" The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor. "
Liev Schreiber
Interesting
You
Way
" 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
Myself
People
" When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror. "
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Action
Felt
Physical
" 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
Teacher
Good
Lucky
" I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. "
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Beautiful
Get
Famous
" The best gig is the one you've got. "
Liev Schreiber
Got
Gig
Best
" We have to remember to respect the faith of people and maybe not the organizations or the groups that manifest around it. "
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Respect
Faith
Maybe
" 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. "
Liev Schreiber
Got
Watching
Performance
" 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. "
Liev Schreiber
You
Alone
Eyes
" Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places. "
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Great
Acting
Find
" I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors. "
Liev Schreiber
Lazy
Sort
Characteristic
" I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. I was a little bit different. "
Liev Schreiber
Acting
Curious
Motivation
" 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
" 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. "
Liev Schreiber
True
Believe
Body
" I think conflicted characters are always more interesting. "
Liev Schreiber
Interesting
Always
Think
" I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me. "
Liev Schreiber
Me
More
Love
" You should never ask actors about politics. "
Liev Schreiber
Politics
Never
Ask
" 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. "
Liev Schreiber
Value
Degree
Play
" 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. "
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More
Interesting
Kind
" I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don't. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater. "
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Good
Kind
Language
" 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
Live
Chicken
First
" I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood. "
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Eyes
Wood
Think
" Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics. "
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Personality
Someone
Style
" 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
Talking
You
Easy