Top 120 Quotes & Sayings by Liev Schreiber
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Liev Schreiber.
Last updated on November 10, 2024.
If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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.
I manage to hide in my movies.
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.
Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.
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?'
I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.
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.
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.
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 was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.
I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.
Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
I've got nothing against L.A. I think it is a really beautiful place. To be able to surf and get out in the Pacific Ocean every once in a while. The hiking, all of that is amazing. I love it there.
I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss.
You always have to create the character from the ground up.
If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.
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 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.
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.
Entitlement is lethal.
Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.
You should never ask actors about politics.
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.
I went to school in Massachusetts at Hampshire College.
The best gig is the one you've got.
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.
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'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.
I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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 very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.
A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.
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.
No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.
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.
There's nothing more exciting than that conversation you have with a live audience. It's the best feeling in the world.
When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror.
Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.
I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.
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.
I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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.
It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.
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.
I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.
There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
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.
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