Latest Liev Schreiber Quotes from Interviews

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• You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.

  Liev Schreiber

  Trying, Actors, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.

  Liev Schreiber

  Actors, Broads, Worth It

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.

  Liev Schreiber

  Mother, Thinking, Income

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.

  Liev Schreiber

  Struggle, Character, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

  Liev Schreiber

  Addiction, Acting

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• I've always been more interested in the audience than I have in the plays. I like that idea of all those people sitting in the dark together. It's kind of fun.

  Liev Schreiber

  Fun, Dark, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that I want to. I think I'm just figuring out how to make a career out of not being myself. It's hard.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Careers, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Simple, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played them, and will be around long after I play them. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

  Liev Schreiber

  Play, Long, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.

  Liev Schreiber

  Jobs, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

  Liev Schreiber

  Smart, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

  Liev Schreiber

  Editing, Rooms, Hours

  "Q+A: Liev Schreiber". Esquire Magazine Interview with Rowan West, October, 2005.