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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 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

Money

Advertising

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job. "

" I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood. "

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

" 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. "

" You should never ask actors about politics. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other. "

" 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 struggle with the idea of comparing people's work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me. "

Liev Schreiber

Art

Giving

" I'm terrible with big parties. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Liev Schreiber

Love

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

" 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. "

" Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first. "

Liev Schreiber

Out

Said

" Entitlement is lethal. "

Liev Schreiber

Entitlement

Lethal

" Everyone says villains are thankless parts, but those are really the best roles. "

" Home is New York. "