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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Liev Schreiber

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

" You always have to create the character from the ground up. "

" 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. "

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

" Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life. "

" I think conflicted characters are always more interesting. "

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

" That's really how I got started was doing Shakespeare. When I got out of school, I was lucky enough to meet George Wolfe, who ran The Public Theater. "

" I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows. "

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

" Entitlement is lethal. "

Liev Schreiber

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" Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places. "

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

" If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over. "

" And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are. "

Liev Schreiber

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics. "

" My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election. "

" Home is New York. "

" 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've never been a heavy practitioner of the method or, at least, with any specific intent; I'm kind of an impulse-based person. Like, I'm sort of waiting for something to happen that I'm not expecting, and I kind of want to jump on that train of emotion, whatever it is, both from myself or from the other actor. "

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