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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Liev Schreiber

Face

London

Glass

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I get panic attacks in big crowds. "

" 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

" 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. "

" As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat. "

" 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. "

" I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish. "

" I'm terrible with big parties. "

" You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss. "

" 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 having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other. "

" I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career. "

" I think conflicted characters are always more interesting. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. "

" I manage to hide in my movies. "

" 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 was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing. "

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

" I have the kind of face that people want to punch. "

" 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. "