Liev Schreiber Quotes

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'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.

He was very supportive of me, ... He saw every single play I did in New York. Ill never forget looking out into the audience and watching my brother, who was 40 years younger than my grandfather, sleeping in his chair during some of my early plays. My grandfather Alex never fell asleep.

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

I am struggling, though. It’s f-cking hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.

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.

I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.

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

I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.

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

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.

And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'

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

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

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.

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

You should never ask actors about politics.

I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

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.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

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

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.

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.

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.

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

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

No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

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

You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.

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

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.

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

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

Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.

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