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Liev Schreiber
American
Actor
About the author
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.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Time
#Talking
If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Character
#Job
#Actor
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Wrong
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.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
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.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#God
#Career
#Thought
#Money
#Help
#Theater
#Advertising
I manage to hide in my movies.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Movies
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.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Work
#First
#Months
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.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Writer
#Actor
If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Love
#Project
It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Work
#Press
My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Talk
#President
#Politics
Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Actors
Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Style
#Expression
#Personality
There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Public
You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Career
#Job
You should never ask actors about politics.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Politics
#Actors
I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
Liev Schreiber,
American
Actor
#Eyes
#Business
#Wood